IIT Madras Startup 'Modulus' develops 'MediCAB’ Portable Hospital Unit for COVID-19 Patients

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) incubated start-up Modulus Housing, has developed a portable hospital unit called ‘MediCAB’, that can be installed anywhere within 8 hours by four people.
MediCAB is foldable and is composed of four zones including a doctor’s room, an isolation room, a medical room/ward and a twin-bed ICU, maintained at negative pressure.
When folded, the collapsible cabins are reduced five-fold, making it very cost-effective for transportation.
Six such units can fit in a truck and easily be deployed at any time and to any place.
To begin with, the ‘MediCAB’ has been launched recently in the Wayanad district of Kerala.
The portable facility has been developed keeping rural areas in mind, which do not have a lot of infrastructure and it is difficult to construct buildings from scratch immediately.