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Rwanda Deploys Robots to Reduce The Risk Of Contamination Of Health Professionals in COVID-19 Treatment Centers
Posted On 07 Aug 2020
By Richard Adorsu-
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NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Accra, Ghana- One of the challenges being faced worldwide is the rate of infection of health professionals while treating COVID-19 patients.
To minimize contact time with confirmed cases and therefore reducing the risk of contamination of health professionals in COVID-19 treatment centers, robots were deployed. At Gatenga and Kanyinya treatment centers in Kigali City, visits by medical staff to patients went from 3-4 to 2 per day since May 2020.
The 5 human-size robots are programmed to perform temperature screening, take readings of vitals, deliver video messages and detect people not wearing masks then instruct them to wear masks properly.
On Tuesday, the Kanyinya COVID-19 Treatment Centre, the 5 robots were launched by the Ministry of Health. Named in Kinyarwanda, Akazuba, Ikirezi, Mwiza, Ngabo, and Urumuri are made by Zora Bots, a Belgian company specialized in robotics. They were acquired through a partnership between the UNDP Rwanda Accelerator Lab (AccLab) and the Ministry of ICT and Innovation. Each robot costs about $30,000.
Urumuri is currently deployed at the Kigali International Airport with the capacity to screen 50 to 150 people per minute and report abnormalities to officers on duty.
As Rwanda is reopening Kigali International Airport for commercial international flights from 1st of August, Urumuri will allow to speed up mass screenings of fever for passengers as they land.
Smart anti-epidemic robots have been used in Asia to help flatten the COVID-19 curve. The pandemic has proven to be a crosscutting challenge affecting Rwanda in all sectors (Health,
Economy, Education, Agriculture,..). It therefore requires different sometimes innovative solutions with available resources like robots.
For New Africa Business News Richard Adorsu Reports, Africa Correspondent
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We are very grateful to African and Rwandan in particular, God continue blessing our Motherland. Look robots now performing and checking people’s temperature, screening, readings of vitals, delivering video messages and detecting people not wearing masks. Only in Africa. Thank you for reporting. Love your online newspaper. Raissa in Kibuye Rwanda.
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Beautiful reporting. I wish we have robots performing our citizens temperature, screening, readings of vitals, delivering video messages and detecting people not wearing masks in the UK. In this COVID-19 world. London England. Bob
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Rwanda is doing what all great countries will do. Thank you for reporting. Kigali Rwanda. Benitha
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Thank you for reporting. Love your online newspaper. Rwanda and most of our Countries in the Continent are doing all what they can do to stop this imported virus spreading in our Continent. I think they doing a great job. Arusha Tanzania. Brenda
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The answer is to contain these Virus and fully open our economic. Thanks for reporting. Love new Africa news. Monica in Nairobi Kenya
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Great online newspaper. Keep it up Journalist Richard and your team.
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