![Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh delivering the inaugural address after launching, through video conference, India's first indigenous, cost effective, wireless gadget for COVID-19, developed by ESIC Medical College Hyderabad, on Sunday. Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh delivering the inaugural address after launching, through video conference, India's first indigenous, cost effective, wireless gadget for COVID-19, developed by ESIC Medical College Hyderabad, on Sunday.](https://cdndailyexcelsior.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/page3-1-6.jpg)
‘Awareness, not anxiety is the key’
Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, June 7: Launching, through video conference, COVID BEEP (Continuous Oxygenation & Vital Information Detection Biomed ECIL ESIC Pod), India’s first indigenous, cost effective, wireless gadget in the form of physiological parameters monitoring system for COVID-19, developed by ESIC Medical College Hyderabad in collaboration with IIT Hyderabad and Department of Atomic Energy, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region,MoS PMO, DoPT, Public Grievances, Pension, Space, Atomic Energy, Dr. Jitendra Singh said here today that “awareness, not anxiety”, is the key to fight COVID pandemic.
Dr Jitendra Singh stressed on the importance of prevention and awareness in dealing with this pandemic effectively, now that the process of Unlock has started in a phased manner after an effective and timely lockdown for nearly two months.
Lauding the efforts of ESIC Medical College Hyderabad, which has come up with yet another innovation in collaboration with eminent institutes like IIT Hyderabad, ECIL, Hyderabad and TIFR, Hyderabad for the welfare of Insured Persons during the present COVID-19 crisis adding to its long list of devices, Dr Jitendra Singh said that COVID BEEP is a perfect example of how synergy amongst the reputed institutes of India can offer solutions to most of the challenges faced by the country with minimum cost and thereby make the country Atmanirbhar in true sense. He also said that COVID BEEP would emerge as an effective antidote to the original COVID; the pandemic which the entire world is currently grappling with.
To address the challenging issue of continuous monitoring of patients’ health during medical treatment, quarantine and self-isolation exercise which may put the doctor and medical staff in danger of constantly getting in touch with COVID-19 patient, ECIL in collaboration with ESIC, Medical College, Hyderabad has come up with a novel remote monitoring solution by the name COVID-BEEP consisting of a versatile indigenous instrument and a mobile app / web browser by means of which patients can be monitored from any place. A prototype of the system has been developed and tested on different patients. The latest version of COVID BEEP has incorporated NIBP monitoring, ECG monitoring and Respiratory Rate.
COVID BEEP is expected to reduce the transmission risk as well as help save resources like PPEs.
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy, Secretary Department of Atomic Energy Dr K N Vyas, Dean ESIC Medical College, Hyderabad Prof. Srinivas, Chairman and Managing Director ECIL, Hyderabad and Rear Admiral Sanjay Chaubey (Retd.) also spoke on the occasion.