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Staff Reporter

Mobile COVID ICU flagged off

HYDERABAD, Telangana, 21/05/2020: Telangana Health Minister Etela Rajender and other TRS MLA during the flagging-off India’s first ICU bus- Mobile COVID ICU at DME office, Koti, in Hyderabad on Thursday. Photo: G. Ramakrishna / The Hindu

A mobile COVID ICU, conceptualised by Grace Cancer Foundation, was flagged off by Health Minister Eatala Rajender at Koti on Thursday.

The ICU facility inside a bus has ventilators, tele radiology, e-ICU, ultrasound, and AI-based risk stratification. Swab samples too can be collected.

The International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Hyderabad is the data and technology partner of the facility.

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