KDMC's Covid hospital gets robot to serve patients

KALYAN: A Dombivli based engineer with his team created a 'Coro-Bot warrior', which will be now used by the Covid hospital of Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC).
"These robots can be used to supply food and medicines at the isolation wards," said Pratik Tirodkar who created it and donated two robots to KDMC with the help of Kalyan MP Dr Shrikant Shinde.
"In a scenario where health workers are increasingly diagnosed positive due to close interaction with patients, in a bid to reduce human interaction, Tirodkar and his team have created robot which will be now used to supply food and medicines into isolation wards," said Shrikant Shinde.
The health experts believe that this trolley-shaped robot will be very useful to treat Covid-19 patients as it is equipped with a camera and speaker system.
"The camera allows the operator to operate from a distance. The speaker can instruct patients about things to be done and not to be done. This will be of great help to nurses and ward boys, who can operate without going near to patients," said Vinita Rane, mayor of KDMC.
The robot also has sanitiser and drinking water facilities and patients before taking food and medicine first can sanitised their hands. The robot can carry plenty of food and medicines which can be served to 15 patients at a time in isolation wards without human touch.
It is a battery-operated vehicle and can work continuously by charging overnight and remotely controlled.
"The trolley type of robot carrying food and water to each patient's bed. This is of great help to the nurses and ward boys," said KDMC commissioner Vijay Suryawanshi.
So far, Kalyan-Dombivli area has reported 942 Covid cases and 589 active patients are taking treatment at hospitals.
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