Soft support: Company makes low-cost cardboard beds for Covid-19 patients

These beds, that Aryan Paper claims can support the weight of over 200 kgs, are light weight, easy to move, assemble and also easy to dispose

Rhea Shah, an architecture graduate from Harvard University, was stuck in Vapi (Gujarat) en route to the Netherlands where she is headed for a doctoral programme after the growing Covid-19 crisis restricted her travel plans.
 

Shah, daughter of the owner of paper and packaging company Aryan Paper Group, came up with a design to make beds out of corrugated boards using high strength paper.
 

These beds, that Aryan Paper claims can support a weight of over 200 kgs, are light weight, easy to move, assemble and also easy to dispose.
 

These can be used as emergency hospital beds or for