With an objective to reduce the risk of health care workers, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh in collaboration with the state owned Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has developed a state of the art health monitoring system to remotely access the health of COVID-19 patients and suspected patients of the disease. This device when in use is expected to reduce the increasing demand of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other logistics.
The director AIIMS Rishikesh, Ravikant said that the trials of the remote monitoring device are successful.
He said that faced with COVID-19 pandemic, a need to develop a solution to remotely monitor patients for limiting exposure healthcare workers was prime and urgent.
He said that based on the inputs given by AIIMS Rishikesh, BEL developed a proof of concept (POC) model of a system to measure parameters such as temperature, pulse rate, saturated oxygen level and respiration rate. The BEL has also networked these sensors for remote monitoring these critical parameters.
