During the second wave of the coronavirus that has ravaged India, Shree Ram Ravichandran knew people who died after being unable to find a hospital bed but he was too busy to dwell on it.
Instead, the 25-year-old civil engineer was fine-tuning a solution: collapsible, portable hospitals that can be transported by trucks and set up within days to offer extra capacity as “hospital extensions”.
The Indian government has approved 50 such portable hospitals and by the end of next week 10 will be ready to travel. In rural areas where there are no hospitals, they will be set up near primary health care centres. Read More…
