Automatic Tap and Hand Sanitizer Setup by Engineering Students
Abba Mathews, Chair for IEEE VJCET Student Branch
To prevent the spread of coronavirus through hospitals, IEEE SIGHT of Viswajyothi College of Engineering and Technology (VJCET) proposed a project ‘Let’s Unchain It’. The project was sponsored IEEE SIGHT and HAC funds. Due to lockdown and Covid19 pandemic, the project implementation started in September 2020 with a team of 16 members. The Government Thaluk Hospital, Adimali, is the main hospital in Idukki. With daily patients of 900 in the OP department together with total human resource of 183 including 20 doctors of different specialties, it was necessary to implement automatic hand sanitizer and automatic tap to prevent the spreading of coronavirus. It was especially useful for tribal people during the pandemic period to visit the hospital safely. We implemented the automatic tap and hand sanitizer at the hospital as well as at primary health centre in Valara, Adimali, working under the Adimali Thaluk hospital.