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the team has developed rapid ways of designing and • To better utilise the oxygen cylinders that were in
printing 3-D bone sca olds. Clinical trials conducted at relative short supply during the second wave, a team
AIIMS, New Delhi have been completed and dental and worked on redesigning oxygen masks facilitating the
orthopaedic surgeons have started recommending the recirculation of exhaled air. TCTD’s calculations
use of such bone grafts. showed that more than 95% of the oxygen inhaled
when on pure oxygen cylinders was exhaled out so a
• During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centre undertook redesign of the oxygen mask was carried out to
certain challenge driven projects in response to urgent facilitate the removal of carbon dioxide, allowing for
clinical requests. CoviDialysis is a patient the exhalation to be recycled, and thereby
coordination service undertaken during extending the life of an oxygen cylinder
the first two waves of the pandemic on by at least five-fold. The blueprints for
behalf of the Municipal Corporation the solution called reBreather were
of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) subsequently open sourced
for the management of all and disseminated, allowing
COVID-19 patients in need other groups across the
of haemodialysis care. country to replicate and
Such patients need fabricate locally.
biweekly or triweekly
dialysis sessions as their • The non-COVID wards at
condition puts them at major hospitals in
high risk of contracting Mumbai continued to
COVID-19, with low survival receive patients in their OPDs
odds. More than 200 dialysis clinics exposing themselves and other
across Greater Mumbai were hospital sta to the Coronavirus.
onboarded on to a portal To help decongest these
put together quickly by the wards, a helpline platform
Centre. As dialysis patients across the city became called World Wide Helpline (WWH) was set up to allow
confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases, the portal a team of volunteers to respond to patient queries in an
allowed for their rapid redirection to dedicated asynchronous mode. This platform was deployed at six
COVID-19 dialysis clinics. More than 2,000 COVID-19 hospitals and COVID centres, including the King
positive patients were redirected during the first nine Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. The MCGM has
months of the pandemic (Mumbai has an estimated indicated its interest in using the platform for the
10,000 dialysis patients) and with timely intervention, delivery of public health services, post-pandemic.
case fatality rates were brought down from 25% at the
onset of the pandemic to below 5%. BMC has labelled
this e ort ‘Project Victory’ and has involved the Centre
in the implementation of further public health initiatives.
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