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Shipping containers to house intensive care units for coronavirus patients
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AN Italian design company has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to create prefabricated intensive care units (ICUs), to deal with escalating numbers of coronavirus patients that are placing health systems under immense pressure the world over.
Carlo Ratti Associati and the MIT Senseable City Lab are looking to address this growing need with ICUs built inside shipping containers, which can be joined together to create mobile field hospitals, according to a release from the World Economic Forum.
They have teamed up with engineering firms, logistic experts and medical equipment suppliers, as part of a non-profit effort, to create the Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments, or CURA. These are designed to be as quick as a tent to put up, but as safe as a hospital with "biocontainment" - a series of safety practices to prevent the spread of disease.
The structure is quick to assemble and disassemble. Because it is made of shipping containers, it can be moved from epicentre to epicentre by road, rail and ship, within countries and from city to city around the world.
Scientists in London have used data from the Chinese epidemic to calculate the impact on the UK's National Health Service. They estimate that the UK will need 200 beds per 100,000 people in the population.
Outside of Europe, preparations are being made to shore up fragile health systems in Africa, which could be overwhelmed if the disease takes hold there.
The World Economic Forum's Alice Charles added: "We are most concerned about the spread of coronavirus to densely populated urban areas in the global south, particularly in Africa where the trajectory for the first 40 days looks much worse that Europe. Hence we believe a solution of this nature needs to get to scale as soon as possible."
Carlo Ratti Associati and the MIT Senseable City Lab are looking to address this growing need with ICUs built inside shipping containers, which can be joined together to create mobile field hospitals, according to a release from the World Economic Forum.
They have teamed up with engineering firms, logistic experts and medical equipment suppliers, as part of a non-profit effort, to create the Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments, or CURA. These are designed to be as quick as a tent to put up, but as safe as a hospital with "biocontainment" - a series of safety practices to prevent the spread of disease.
The structure is quick to assemble and disassemble. Because it is made of shipping containers, it can be moved from epicentre to epicentre by road, rail and ship, within countries and from city to city around the world.
Scientists in London have used data from the Chinese epidemic to calculate the impact on the UK's National Health Service. They estimate that the UK will need 200 beds per 100,000 people in the population.
Outside of Europe, preparations are being made to shore up fragile health systems in Africa, which could be overwhelmed if the disease takes hold there.
The World Economic Forum's Alice Charles added: "We are most concerned about the spread of coronavirus to densely populated urban areas in the global south, particularly in Africa where the trajectory for the first 40 days looks much worse that Europe. Hence we believe a solution of this nature needs to get to scale as soon as possible."