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Self-taught engineer creates a tractor-mounted sanitation sprayer to prevent the spread of Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-16 10:27
Rajendra Jadhav was worried about the spread spread Covid-19 pandemic. When the first cases were reported in his district of residence, he felt he had to do something to prevent the virus from reaching his village. Jadhav is a self-taught engineer, having ...
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Professors and students develop a cheap and easy to assemble ventilator to help in the fight against Covid19
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-31 10:21
In just one week, a team at Oxford University and King’s College London built a simple ventilator, the OxVent, that could help the fight against Covid19. Andrew Farmery academic at the University of Oxford and consultant anaesthetist explained that the ...
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Students create program to help the elderly socialize during the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-27 18:23
During the Covid-19 pandemic, residents of nursing homes or assisted-living facilities could no longer receive visitations form their loves-ones, a measure put in place to protect them from being infected by the new coronavirus. To help combat the ...
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Students provide free childcare to healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-03 13:46
Sruthi Shankar and Sara Lederman, medical students at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities School of Medicine, knew that a lot of healthcare professionals, working hard to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, where worried about care for their children after ...
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Doctors create airtight chamber to transport Covid-19 patients safely
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-18 16:15
A group of doctors from the Aureus Institute of Medical Sciences developed a equipment called CoviSafe – a container “box” designed to safely transport patients infected with Covid-19. The necessity was brought up by the difficulties encountered in ...
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Team creates platform to connect healthcare workers in need with volunteers
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-05-07 10:56
A multidisciplinary group of volunteers built HospitalHero, a platform to connect healthcare workers in need of meals, supplies or anything else with volunteers able to help. Through the website, healthcare workers can request help and volunteers can ...
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Engineers design an automated bag valve mask to tackle the shortage of ventilators due to Covid19
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-02 09:57
Dr Matthew Wettergreen and his team at the Rice Univeristy, in Texas, designed an automated bag valve mask in less than two weeks to tackle the needs emerging because of the Covid19 pandemic. This automated bag valve mask device is meant to take less ...
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9-year-old builds foot operated hand washing system to prevent coronavirus infections
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-16 08:49
Stephen Wamukote is 9-year-old boy from Kenya. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he saw on TV a piece about ways to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, and decided to take initiative and build a tool that would help is village stay safe. So, he took ...
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Friends create smartband that vibrates to reduce face touching
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-14 15:23
Immutouch is a wearable smartband that vibrates every time the users touch their face, with the aim of keeping people safe during the Covid-19 pandemic and also create safe habits for the future. The device was created by two brothers, Matthew and Joseph ...
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Startup launches free app to help monitor the health of nursing home residents
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-29 21:55
To help nursing homes and assisted care facilities monitor their residents, one of the most vulnerable groups affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, Portuguese company Create IT launched a new, free platform call “+Próximo” (“Closer”, in English”). The app ...
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