Aarogya Maitri Health Cube:
The Indian Army and Air Force recently conducted a first-of-its-kind paradrop of the Aarogya Maitri Health Cube, the indigenously-made world’s first portable hospital, at 15,000 feet elevation.
- Aarogya Maitri Health Cube is the world’s first portable hospital.
- It was designed indigenously under Project BHISHM (Bharat Health Initiative for Sahyog Hita and Maitri),
- It contains medical equipment and supplies such as a mini-ICU, an operation theatre, a cooking station, food, water, a power generator, blood test equipment, power generator, an X-ray machine, and more.
- The ‘Aarogya Maitri Cube Cage’ includes three frames, each accommodating 12 mini-cubes.
- The cage can fit in 36 mini-cubes, including almost everything that can be packed for survival for a period of 48 hours for 100 survivors.
- The design allows joining two cages–master cube one and master cube two, including 72 cubes in total–with damage control capabilities for 200 survivors.
- Mini cubes are durable and waterproof and are designed to open “in different configurations”.
- These cubes are light and portable and can be carried by a single person–a messenger bag, as a strolley or as a briefcase–or even transported through a drone.
- The cubes can handle several severe injuries, including 40 bullet injuries, 25 major bleeds, 25 major burns, around 10 head injuries, long limb fractures, spinal injuries, chest injuries, and spinal fractures.
- The structure will also contain a tablet-based application which can operate all 72 cubes.
- The system also integrates AI and data analytics.
