Chamber designed for doctors’ to serve COVID patients

A group of architects and engineers jointly have designed an isolation chamber for doctors to ensure safety for both doctors and patients while treating COVID-19 patients and suspects.

They also said that the chamber would give the physician safety without wearing PPE where the doctor could perform duty for long time comfortably.

Leader of the team Iqbal Habib told New Age that the aim of the initiative was to ensure health services for patients keeping doctors safe from any COVID-19 risks.

He said that they used cost-effective raw materials with high quality air filtering mechanism inside the chamber which would protect doctors of being infected by patients and vice versa.

He said that the government could produce the chamber if it wishes since the designers would open the manual for all otherwise interested private and voluntary organisations also can manufacture it with approval of health department.

Ruhul Amin, director of the Directorate General of Drug Administration, said that as the devise was not a medical devise, it was not drug administration’s responsibility to give permission.

He said that DGHS might have opinion on it as it is connected with the doctors’ safety.

Iqbal Habib said that they have primarily named the chamber ‘Nirnayok’ which has double layer mobile room facilitating sample collection of COVID-19 patients and give all patients prescription.

Light steel angles, glass acrylic sheet, melamine boards, rubber gasket, cement and glue were used to make it PPE-like safe and high quality air filter for ensuring safe air in the chamber, he said.

Drawing manual of the chamber was ready, a sample copy also was prepared by the Vitti Sthapati Brindo Ltd on trial basis in the meantime.

‘The chamber can be used as COVID-19 suspects sample collection booth too,’ he said.

Iqbal said that they want to open the drawing and designing for all who want to produce it in this time of health emergency.

There was a small two way speaker too so that doctor and patient could hear each other.

Syed Saiful Alam Shovan, a volunteer, who developed the idea of Nirnayok, said that he worked on the idea as he had observed that doctors were afraid of treating even non-COVID-19 patients as many doctors get infected.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net