IIT Madras Incubated Start-Up Develops Portable Hospitals

A start-up incubated at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) has developed portable hospitals.

A start-up incubated at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) has developed portable hospitals, the office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government said on Sunday. This technology enables building a 100-bed extension facility in three weeks. "MediCAB hospitals are designed with a dedicated zone of Intensive Care Units (ICUs) that can accommodate various life-support equipment and medical devices. These negative pressure portable hospitals have durability of around 25 years, and they can also be shifted in the future for any disaster response in less than a week," the office of the PSA said. These rapidly deployable hospitals will plug a major health infrastructure gap in India's fight against COVID-19, especially in rural areas and smaller towns, it added. The office of the PSA has been actively working towards securing funding support to implement these projects in different areas across the nation.