Скачать или смотреть Hospital staff invent RM300 tool to move Covid-19 patients

KOTA BHARU: Staff of Universiti Sains Malaysia Hospital in Kubang Kerian have invented a RM300 tool using everyday items to protect medical staff and patients being transferred between wards.  Hospital director Prof Dr Ahmad Sukari Halim said the Covid Transport Tool, or Covid-TT, had been made using everyday cheap items such as PVC pipes, thick clear plastic, rubber gloves, tape, gum, HEPA filter, vacuum pump, and recycled ‘valve trocar laparoscopic disc’ and circuit tubes, all at a cost of RM300.  Due to the difficulty of getting material to produce the Covid-TT, only one set had been made, but the hospital hopes to produce a second set soon.  “Covid-TT is simple and cheap compared to the ‘patient isolation and transportation’ pod (isopod which costs between RM30,000 and RM40,000 each,” he said.  He said Covid-TT was designed by nurses and health assistants, with the cooperation of staff in other departments, and produced by operations theatre staff.  He said it was the brainchild ...