Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the course of the presentation of the BHISHM dice to Ukraine, in kyiv on August 23, 2024. | Photograph Credit score: PTI
Exterior Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Friday (August 23, 2024) stated that India has handed over 10 BHISHM cubes, containing 22-tonne medical help gear together with 10 energy generator units.
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The disclosing of the Bharat Well being Initiative for Sahyog Hita and Maitri (BHISHM) cubes has been one of many highlights of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ongoing go to to war-hit Ukraine.
BHISHM Cubes, also referred to as Arokya Maitri Cubes, are important trauma care cubes which were indigenously developed by BHISHM Mission underneath the Aarogya Maitri Mission.
This challenge, spearheaded by HLL Life Care, the company designated by the federal government to acquire the equipment, and manufactured by a number of distributors collaborating to supply a variety of important medical merchandise, was initiated in 2022 by the Ministry of Defence.
BHISHM cubicles are a cell, user-friendly medical facility that may be quickly deployed to avoid wasting lives in essentially the most tough circumstances. They will present important medical care to 100 survivors for as much as 48 hours, making them a lifesaver in distant and tough terrains the place quick medical consideration is required.
The help dice is reportedly geared up with a number of progressive instruments designed to enhance catastrophe response and medical help throughout emergencies. It integrates synthetic intelligence (AI) and knowledge analytics to facilitate efficient coordination, real-time monitoring, and environment friendly administration of medical companies within the subject.
Every dice incorporates a absolutely geared up working room, mini-ICU, ventilators, blood testing gear, an X-ray machine, and even a cooking station. It additionally features a shelter and an influence generator, making it utterly self-sufficient throughout emergencies.
The life-saving gear is packed in a set of “mini-cubes” and a mix of those mini-cubes is used to assemble a cell hospital able to performing life-saving surgical procedures. The mini-cubes are transported in an “Aarogya Maitri Dice Cage”, which has three frames, every able to holding 12 mini-cubes. In whole, one Aarogya Maitri Dice Cage can maintain 36 mini-cubes.
Earlier, the central authorities in collaboration with the Indian Air Pressure and the Indian Military carried out a first-of-its-kind exact parachute dropping operation of the Aarogya Maitri Well being Hub at a excessive altitude space of shut to fifteen,000 ft on August 17, 2024. It was additionally deployed in Ayodhya for the inauguration ceremony, the ‘Pran Pratishtha’, of the Ram Mandir on January 22.
India has already gifted these models as a goodwill gesture to Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
