CLW innovates remote controlled trolly for COVID-19 patients
Chittaranjan(West Burdwan)/Kolkata, 12 May(HS): The opening of a new chapter in the country’s medical history, Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW), one of the largest and most modern locomotive factories in India has innovated a remote-controlled medical trolley to serve patients in its fully equipped 90 beds isolation ward of the Railway Hospital before using the same in other hospitals soon.
According to CLW sources here today, the factory technicians had innovated this unique and the first of its kind remote-controlled medical trolley following intensive research and subsequent trials during the past two months to help maintain a safe distance between the doctors, nurses and other frontline warriors with Covid-19 patients, to avoid infection besides maintaining the necessary social distancing norms considering the transmissible nature of the disease.
Manufactured by the Electrical Department of the CLW under the guidance of General Manager Praveen Kumar Mishra the trolley was equipped with sophisticated remote controlled devises and having the facility of two way communication with a remote camera., the sources informed.
According to them, with this unique devise the nurses and doctors could monitor all movements near the patients without going near to him or her and sitting in their own place.
It has a portable app ‘I Ball Guard’ application which also allows the relatives of patients to virtually meet their kin from a distance of 30 metres through mobile phones, and the wheel-based trolley could also carry the weight of up to 20 kg of medicines, food, and other necessary items while maintaining the necessary social distancing between patients and medics, the sources informed.
We hope following the successful performance of the new device in the coming weeks in the factory hospital, the same could also be used elsewhere in the state as well as in various other COVID-19 hospitals in the country, the sources said and indicated the capabilities of CLW to manufacture similar unique remote-controlled trollies in large numbers even in short notice.
Now it remains to be seen how various government and other agencies would respond to the performance of the new device and encourage the new innovation of Railway engineers by making full use of it across the country in the present time of national health crisis.
Incidentally, CLW has also launched a well-equipped 150 bed Quarantine facility at its Technical Training Center for suspected patients.
