<span style="color: #222222;">The personal protective equipment PPE which Doctors and other medical staff wear, undoubtedly provides a shield of protection from COVID-19, but the PPE also has certain disadvantages, like excessive sweating, dehydration and fatigue.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">An engineering student of a Mumbai based college has come to the rescue of the front line staff by inventing a cool PPE kit.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The innovative PPE kit designed by the student has brought much-needed relief.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent reports, Nihaal Singh Adarsh an engineering student of K.J. Somaiya college has invented a a ventilation system for PPE Kit.&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to Nihaal, the Cov-Tech ventilation system takes the surrounding air filters it and pushes it into the PPE suit.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Talking to AIR, he said there was an open design challenge for COVID-related solutions, organized by Technological Business Incubator, Research Innovation Incubation Design Laboratory which was the first trigger point of coming up with this invention.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Apart from this, he also used to hear from his doctor mother on the difficulty she and other doctors faced while wearing a PPE kit throughout the day.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">With guidance from Dr. Ulhas Kharul of National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, Nihaal was able to develop the first model in 20 days.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Rutwik helped Nihaal to design his 2D sketches into the 3D models and Sayli on her part looked after digital marketing and handling of their website.&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Aiming to sell this &quot;cool PPE kit&quot; as it is prominently called across the country, Nihaal says that he would be cent percent satisfied when he would see all doctors wear this innovative PPE kit.</span><br />'' &nbsp;
News On AIR | May 23, 2021 7:50 PM
Engineering student from Mumbai designs cool PPE kit with ventilation