IIT Madras-incubated start-up develops portable hospital for Covid cases

Hospital can be installed by four people in just two hours anywhere

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras-incubated start-up, Modulus Housing, has developed a portable hospital unit that can be installed by four people anywhere within two hours.

Called ‘MediCAB,’ it is a decentralised approach to detectiig, screening, identifying, isolating and treat Covid-19 patients in their local communities at these portable microstructures.

‘MediCAB’ was launched recently in Wayanad District, Kerala, where the units are being deployed to treat Covid-19 patients. The start-up is developing micro hospitals that can be deployed rapidly across the nation. The Medicab is foldable and is composed of four zones – a doctor's room, an isolation room, a