We are currently in the midst of a pandemic. And we are aware that our healthcare capacity will not be able to handle this burden. We may end up losing lives for the lack of a hospital bed, or a ventilator or a syringe. We are trying to fight this. We are running against time to get the supplies that our public health system will need to sustain itself. We are fighting for the doctors and nurses who are at the frontline working in high risk situations to help all of us, and we need your support!
We are pushing for creation of new infrastructural spaces, ramping up existing manufacturing capabilities and identifying alternate solutions for the system. We are creating digital platforms and solutions which will enable testing without risks of spreading infection. We are also creating designs so that medical manufacturing can be taken to garage scale. We want to enable local experts to join this movement and push the capabilities of health centers further. If they know a primary health center, we want them to be able to create an ICU in that; and we will need them.
We won’t be able to reach everywhere, not at the speed that the virus is spreading, but we are hoping that this knowledge can.
1) Systems to enable reuse of medical supplies
2) Systems to reduce equipment downtime at critical care
3) Systems to enable mass screening
4) Upskilling of health workers, nurses and service engineers
A bunch of creators, makers, entrepreneurs and trailblazers who have worked with the medical ecosystem of India for a considerable amount of time. Most of us here have medical technology companies of our own and we have conceptualised, prototyped, validated and commercialised multiple products. The group has physicians, scientists and individuals from experience in creating diagnostics, assistive technologies, monitoring technologies and critical care aids.
Are you someone who would want to work with the response team but do not know how? You can volunteer with any skill set and in any geographical location and work with the project team to help them get to the market faster.
Are you a manufacturer; tinkerer or hacker? We need you to ramp up productions and ramp up the supply chain capabilities. Please get in touch with us. We need a large number of people here.
Are you a physician, a health advocate, an implementer or someone who can help us reach out to the policy makers. Please join the team. We desperately need you for creating and implementing faster system maps.
To get in touch with us, please write to [email protected] with your ideas and how you can support the task-force.
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