Coronavirus: Manav Rachna team develops face protection shield for healthcare professionals

A team of researchers at Manav Rachna has developed a face protection shield for health care workers and front line professionals, attending COVID-19 patients.

Manav Rachna Educational Institutions (MREI) has announced that a startup incubated at the institute, Makershala (Technoplanet Lab Pvt. Ltd.), has developed a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) face protection shield for health care workers and frontline professionals, who are treating and monitoring coronavirus patients.

The face shield is very cost-effective and can be produced at much faster rate to meet the current demand. It has been tested and reviewed by the medical team of Sarvodaya Hospital, the MREI said in a statement.

The team of researchers comprising Arshdeep Singh, NikhilDalmia, Manasvi Sihag, Tasneem, Raushan Kumar, Charanjeet Singh shared: “Makershala has set its own task force that is working on various technology-based solutions for community and sector-specific problems. The work on the face protection shield was started after a media channel reported its shortage in the country."

The team has worked remotely and used their Markerspace to develop the prototype of the product. It can be manufactured with minimum resources and can fulfill the requirements for medical and health care professionals attending COVID-19 patients, the team said.

Last week, SynsalusTechnomed LLP, a start-up incubated at Manav Rachna under NewGENIEDC, DST, GoI has developed a Web Application- ‘Fighting Coronavirus’ as a response to Government of India’s ‘COVID19 Solution Challenge’. This web application is a connected web app for home-care training, lockdown support and cluster detection during COVID-19, and is accessible from any device.

The total number of confirmed positive cases of coronavirus in India today has reached 6,787. The death toll in the country stands at 225.