Using everyday items, operating theatre crew come up with a way to protect staff and patients during transfers between wards. FMTNews Covid19 MCO
The Covid Transport Tool for transferring patients, invented by staff of Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia in Kelantan.
Hospital director Prof Dr Ahmad Sukari Halim said the Covid Transport Tool, or Covid-TTT, 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.
“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.
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