About Aarogya Maitri Aid Cube:
- It is the world’s first portable hospital.
- Designed indigenously under Project BHISHM (Bharat Health Initiative for Sahyog Hita and Maitri), the modular trauma management and aid system is made up of 72 detachable mini-cubes, each being a specialized station for emergency response and humanitarian efforts.
- It contains medical equipment and supplies such as a mini-ICU, an operation theatre, cooking station, food, water, a power generator, blood test equipment, an X-ray machine, and more.
- The cubes are capable of handling patients with severe injuries up to 25 major burns, long limb fractures, chest injuries, spinal injuries and approximately 10 head injuries.
- It can treat as many as 200 patients.
- These cubes are light and portable, and can be rapidly deployed anywhere, from airdrops to ground transportation.
- Design:
- It consists of 72 cubes that can be combined to form a specialized cage capable of accommodating 36 mini-cubes. The mini-cubes are packed with everything essential for the survival of 100 individuals for duration of 48 hours.
- There are two master cubes designed to be interconnected, allowing them to accommodate a maximum of 200 survivors. The total weight of every master cube with 36 cubes is less than 750 kilos.
- It relies on the Rubik’s Cube concept and each of the cubes is designed to weigh less then 20 kilos to make it easy to carry up manually.
- The structure will also contain a tablet-based application which can operate all 72 cubes.
