Now robots woulddeliver medicines and essential services to Covid-19 patients at a hospital inAssam, officials said here on Sunday.
The robots designed by the Guwahati-based Yantrabot Technologies Pvt Limitedwith remote controllable robotic vehicles would deliver food, medicines andother essential services to Covid-19 patients as well as patients with otherextremely contagious diseases inside the isolation chambers of the quarantine facilities.
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday handed over two robots tothe Principal of Dibrugarh-based Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH),Sanjib Kakati, to use them for delivering food, medicines and essentialservices to Covid patients.
An official release said it is part of the Covid-19 infrastructure equipmentgrant sponsored by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, Rotary Clubof Dibrugarh and Bangladesh's Rotary Club of Dhaka Royal under the support of"Global Grant".
Sonowal thanked co-founder Arunjyoti Borgohain of Yantrabot Technologies PvtLimited for designing the robot. The Chief Minister said the two robots wouldhave a huge role in rendering care to patients in the hospitals.
Meanwhile, in a first-of-its-kind in northeast India, a robot developed byyoung scientist Harjeet Nath from Tripura University was deployed in agovernment Covid Care Centre in May 2020 to deal with Covid patients.
Nath has made the robot from locally available material, including scrap. Hehas named it as 'WARBOT' to fight the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.
Nath's aim was to assist the frontline health workers, including doctors, intaking care of the coronavirus patients from a distant place. The youngscientist in July 2020 donated the robot to the Tripura Medical College and DrB.R. Ambedkar Memorial Teaching Hospital.
The medical college had used the robot at the 250-bed Covid Care Centre inHapania, on the outskirts of the capital city Agartala. Tripura Medical CollegeProfessor and in-charge of the Hapania Covid Care Centre, Shib Sekhar Datta,said the robot was useful to some extent.