I’m Ushan Sakuntha an undergraduate following electronics and telecommunication engineering degree from Sri Lanka Technological Campus. I developed this PCR machine which is used to amplifiy cDNA of a virus. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the method widely used in molecular biology to make millions to billions of copies of a specific DNA sample, allowing scientists to take a very small sample of DNA and amplify it to a large enough amount to study in detail. This is the machine used for PCR process called thermocycler. This is a conventional pcr machine which needs to use a gel run after the pcr process. Now I’m developing this machine into a real time pcr to get the result quickly with the help of MRI and SLIC
Launch of several new inventions and innovations to protect frontline health workers fighting the COVID-19 virus, headed by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa took place today (06.05.2020) at the Gangarama Temple. Minister of Higher Education, Technology and Innovations, Hon. (Dr.) Bandula Gunawardana, Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Hon. (Mrs.) Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi, SLIC Commissioner Prof. R.U. Halwatura and inventors were present at this event.
We are a team of four members are involving with this ‘Video assisted ward communication system to minimize exposure of doctors to COVID – 19 positive patients’. Dr. Sarasi Kaviratne, Medical officer at National Hospital for Respiratory Diseases, Welisara, Shashika Samarasinghe, Electronic Engineer at Mobitel, Anuruddha Tennakoon, (Electronic Engineer) Founder- A&T Labs and Hirantha Subasinghe,Software Engineer at Huubap PTE are sharing hands to make this project a success.
Our invention is to reduce the exposure of doctors to Covid-19 with proper distanced video assisted communication system. Here we have two ways of communication; Doctor to Patient and Patient to Doctor. Simple architecture of the solution is as below.
For doctor-To observe, prioritize and
communicate with the patient
One
camera for two patients when the beds are within 1m distance and One camera for
one patient when beds are more than 1m apart are installed.
Control
panel at the doctors’ station will get the continuous video feed of the patient.
Camera
has two-way audio where the doctor can initiate the communication through a
control panel (monitor).
At
any time, doctor can observe and prioritize the patientswho need attention
without going physically inside the ward, or without sending a high cost robot
in a single click and even he can ask for complaints from patient after
initiating a call which is autoanswered at the patient’s end.
For patient- To communicate with the
doctor
One
‘panic button’ for each patient will be provided.
When the patient pushes the
panic button, the control panel will get a notification and the doctor can
initiate communication with the patient. Then, the patients make complaints and
communicate with the doctor without waiting for thedoctor’s physical visit with
a single click.
Benefits of this
invention are low cost in
development, single click operation,
Easy set-up, non-requirement of high tech training for users and lesser time
for development.
With the proposal, our team contacted SLIC and they
assisted us by giving advices and financial support for the development of this
project dedicating their valuable time.
Thank you very much SLIC team for your assistance and guidance.
I am Dr. Anupa Herath, currently working at base hospital Warakapola as a consultant anaesthetist. I have been working with SLIC since 2014 where I had excellent guidance, support and facilitation for my medical inventions. This low cost video laryngoscope was designed initially in 2015. It was recommended for clinical use by an expert ethical committee in 2016. Followed by a series of modifications and improvement Patent certificate was issued for the novel features of this device in 2017.
This device is used in anaesthesia in order to facilitate insertion of a special tube called “endotracheal” tube into patient’s trachea in order to provide artificial ventilation. Compared to commercially available devices in this calibre, this device facilitates the procedure with 100% accuracy with minimal damage and risk to the patient. It also makes this procedure easy and safe especially in patients with abnormal anatomy explained in anaesthesia as “difficult airway risk”
The cost for this device is about 10% of the most commercially available device and this can be made using both reusable or disposable material.
The clinical benefit and importance of this device became more and more significant with the COVID 19 outbreak. Use of this device significantly reduces the risk of exposure to the patient and it will protect the anaesthetist and the other health care workers from acquiring infection from an infected patient. With the facilitation and support from the SLIC we are looking forward to distribute this device among all the government hospitals to help the fight against COVID 19 pandemic.
We A. M. Nilupul Nuwan Senevirathna and W. W. Kanchana Aruna Kumara Perera develop this invention. Our hands must be properly sterilized to protect against coronavirus. Also when using sanitizer bottles containing disinfectant liquid, contact with it can cause the spread of the disease. To solve that problem, we have developed an automated sanitizer. It can also be fitted to many existing sanitizer bottles. It is designed to be small in size, at a very low cost. When we close our hands to this Automatic Hand Sanitizer, it automatically senses our hands. This then it sprays sanitizer liquid into our hands. That way we can sterilize our hands well. It has a fluid volume controller and a fluid frequency controller. Once this device is fully charged, we can get sanitizer liquid many times.
I am Sahan C. Ranasinghe (Engineer) and with the arising of this COVID-19 period in Sri Lanka, I thought to give my contribution for health sector by producing this Patient Inspection Chamber with Monitoring system. I offer my sincere gratitude to SLIC for the financial assistance for initialize Patient Inspection Chamber with Monitoring system project and for patent applying process.
This system is
developed to reduce the exposure of medical staff to covid-19 patients, Covid-19
suspects and normal patients. We can use these units in Hospitals, Ward, OPD and ETU.
Main features of this invention are medical staff can address wards using mics
and speakers, monitor ward activities, patient inspection chamber, 2 way audio
and video communication with the patient, medical staff can
collect samples from patient, medical staff can disinfect the sample tube
without touching, medical staff can disinfect the chamber, pulse oximeter,
thermometer readings can monitor remotely and safety features.
Thank you very much SLIC team for your assistance and guidance.
We are an engineering team and involving with this Semi Automated Telepresence Robot for Hospitals project based on the need of health sector during this hard COVID-19 period. Our team members are Sahan C. Ranasinghe / Anuruddha Tennakoon / Buddhika Marasinghe. We extend our gratitude and thank to SLIC for assisting financial support for the development of this invention and apply for the patent within one week.
Our invention is a
semi automated telepresence robot for Indoor transportation for deliver meals,
drugs, and garbage collection and for patient interview in covid-19 wards or
suspect patients’ wards. In addition to that, this is suitable for manufacturing
plants, warehouses. This robot can be used as a remote control or run on
automated guided path. But you can override anytime. It has obstacle detection
sensors, mechanical dampers to avoid collision. Also most importantly it has a
camera and display for Video conferencing facility to communicate with patients.
Health care staff can monitor or interview the patients and get the feedback
about their symptoms immediately with less exposursity of medical staff
to covid-19 patients.
Thank you very
much SLIC team for your assistance and guidance.
