As the country battles thecoronavirus pandemic, a dedicated team of professors and researchers from India’s top institutes are addressing the shortage of PPEs by designing and developing indigenous kits for healthcare workers who are on the frontline fighting the contagion.
A team at World University of Design (WUD) is working closely with IIT Delhi, AIIMS and the Chennai based Loyal Textile Mills to design and produce standard PPE for our healthcare workers. These institutions are collaborating and pooling their respective expertise to assist in the development of not only low cost but also easily available PPE kits.
“We are happy to share the patterns for the entire PPE with anyone who is contributing to meeting the shortage of the same. The design and production of these kits is open source, therefore any small or medium scale factory interested can take the design from us and start manufacturing them. The key feature of this design is the ease of doffing, where the garment can be taken off by the person without touching the infected outer surface.
The prototypes for these kits have been created following the required protocol and are presently undergoing a second round of testing at a hospital in Chennai," said Dr Sanjay Gupta, WUD Vice-Chancellor.
The newly designed PPE will provide a high level of protection with stringent technical requirements.