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Janani Janarthanan brings you details on India's first portable hospital. #VibrantGujarat
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Janani Janarthanan brings you details on India's first portable hospital. #VibrantGujarat
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00:00 We're back to you from another stall here at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit. This one is of the Arogya Maitri Cube
00:06 What happens when disaster strikes? How do you get the first responders to deliver health care to the ground more effectively?
00:14 And this is an innovative concept here and we're in conversation with the Air Vice Marshal Mr. Tanmay Roy, retired
00:21 Sir, thank you so very much for talking to us
00:24 Help us understand what exactly the Arogya Maitri Cube does and how it can be deployed
00:30 Basically this is a National Security Council
00:35 Driven project
00:39 part of the Arogya Maitri project which Prime Minister declared
00:43 Shri Narendra Modi ji's blessings were there and we started it on 13th January. He declared it in 2022
00:51 So we have been working since then last one and a half years to and come to this
00:56 Basically, this project is a absolutely
00:59 self-contained
01:02 Independent mobile hospital which can reach the last mile on the first day of disaster. That is the aim
01:08 Generally a disaster when it strikes people do not reach on the first day because the roads are broken or there is a flood or
01:18 People are not aware. People cannot reach because the roads are broken and the buses and the trucks cannot reach
01:23 So there we have 72 cubes and this 72 cubes is divided into two cuboids. So 36 plus 36
01:31 None of them is more than 20 kg. It can be carried by hand, carried on shoulder, carried by cycle, carried by car
01:39 Can be carried by truck, carried by boat in flood situations and put two three cubes and the boat can move carried by drones
01:48 Because whatever we plan we should plan for 10 years ahead and India will be and definitely in a very good state
01:55 As far as the technology of drone is concerned in very soon
01:58 so replenishments can be sent by each of the cube being picked up and
02:04 You can reach the last mile location very fast right on the first day and save life
02:09 So what it is is each cube is a particular pertains to a particular
02:15 Care health care provider what exactly each cube is and what are some of the use cases where can this be deployed?
02:21 One of course is disaster prone areas on the first day of disaster. What else can this be conceptualized for?
02:26 This you see this is like a Sputnik moment for us when Sputnik came
02:32 Nobody knew that Sputnik will be followed by communication internet
02:35 Spacecraft and communications and everything but now it is there similarly. This is a concept. It is a principle
02:44 It has many many offshoots
02:46 It can be used not only in disaster can be used in war and can be converted
02:51 To be used in primary health care settings where you can reach every village
02:56 imagine a situation when a pregnant lady who is seven month pregnant give a
03:01 Geo location on his mobile and says I am not well that geolocation is transmitted to a center and this team reaches
03:08 There instead of the person coming. So these are the technology variations which can occur
03:13 We have it can also be used in veterinary science because we are also one animal finally
03:18 Different type of veterinary science it can be used it can be used it can have so many offshoots and as we explore the various
03:26 Offshoot the doors will keep on opening and more and more and more will come to know. It's a process. It's a concept
03:33 It is not there in the world anywhere. So we are lucky that it has it has happened to us and we are able to do that
03:39 Indeed and it's a very fascinating of concept also bringing it. Thank you so very much for talking to us
03:44 You
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