A portable hospital unit developed by IIT Madras

MediCAB is a portable hospital unit developed by IIT Madras-incubated startup, Modulus Housing. COVID-19 patients in the local communities can be treated through this portable microstructure which took 4 people to install. It follows a decentralized approach to detect, screen, identify, isolate, and treat patients. It has already been launched in the Wayanad district of Kerala. MediCAB has four zones – a doctor’s room, an isolation room, a medical room, and a twin bed ICU and it is foldable. In Rural India, where the medical infrastructure needs to be augmented, these can be transformed into micro-hospitals/clinics post-COVID-19 because Modulus is working on a Dual design where these can be rapidly launched as COVID-19 isolation wards. 

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Updated by Drishti Badole

News source: The economics times and Hindustan times