Design and Development of Robotic Vehicle for Isolation Ward

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the health systems severely. It is very difficult task for the all countries of the entire world to make isolated wards and treat the patients in this pandemic situation. Although majority of people of the world have taken vaccine, third wave is started in the majority part of the world.  For health workers and medical staff, it is very difficult to sanitize themselves frequently and do the work in an isolated ward while wearing a PPE kit. The work presented here deals with a smart robotic vehicle that can supply a medicine, food, etc. in COVID-19 isolation ward by moving in the entire space. For hospital staff, robotic vehicle can significantly reduce the risk of infectious diseases and make possible to deliver the food and medicine to the patients. The prime utilization of such robots is to minimize person-to-person contact. This will result in minimizing the life threat to medical staff and doctors taking an active role in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. The robots are advantageous as they not only prevent the spread of infection, and reduce human error but they also allow front-line staff to reduce direct contact, focusing their attention on higher priority tasks and creating separation from direct exposure to infection.