Tezpur varsity develops face shields

TNN | Updated: Apr 5, 2020, 13:37 IST

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GUWAHATI: Tezpur University (TU) has started developing face shields that can be used by medical staff as personal protective equipment while attending to Covid-19 patients. The first batch of these face shields has already been dispatched to Tezpur Medical College, Gauhati Medical College and Dr B Borooah Cancer Institute.
The face shields are being jointly developed at TU's Embedded Systems and Robotics Lab and Applied Photonics and Nanophotonics Lab, which are funded by the department of science and technology, department of biotechnology and eYantra Project (IIT-Bombay), and Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi.
Faculty members involved in the project are associate professor at the electronics and communication engineering department Dr Nayan M Kakoty, assistant professor Dr Durlav Sonowal, assistant professor of computer science and engineering Dr Rosy Sarmah and physics professor Pabitra Nath. The molecular biology and biotechnology department of TU is making sanitisers to disinfect the face shields.