are tested at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases. (Photo courtesy of UNDP)
Hanoi (VNA) – The United National Development Programme (UNDP) has
donated three Ohmni Robots to the to
help protect frontline doctors and nurses from COVID-19 and other infectious
diseases.
Ohmni Robots have the main function of remote communication, remote diagnoses
and treatment.
Handing over the robots to the Hospital on June 25, UNDP Resident
Representative in Vietnam Caitlin Wiesen said these robots provide safe
interface between the doctor and the patient for diagnoses and they enable
doctors to see far more patients at a time. They are fully automatic and can be
managed from a large distance and provided the added function of tele-medicine
and tele-training, that will be very important for the interface between the
National Hospital and hospitals in rural areas.
She added that the intention was not to replace existing doctors and nurses, it
was to complement and to provide safety in highly infectious context.
Nguyen
Vu Trung, Deputy Director General of the Hospital, said so far, the hospital
only has PPE and tries its best to protect doctors and nurses. However there
are still people who are at high risks because of their direct contacts with
patients, especially when they do some procedures for care and treatment.
“These robots will help us a lot, the non-contact procedures will protect us,”
he said.
This is the first in series of robots to be delivered from UNDP to hospitals
for testing ecosystem and robotic applications: diagnosis, tele-training,
autonomous delivery of supplies for and other infectious diseases.
The second Robot, BeetleBot, will be delivered in July.
According to UNDP, after the test of the two types of robots, it will organise
dialogues among different robots makers, as well as among the hospitals,
healthcare system stakeholders and robot makers, thus building a healthy
robotic ecosystem in Vietnam. /.
Source: VietnamPlus
