{"id":322595,"date":"2020-04-25T10:32:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T10:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322595"},"modified":"2020-04-25T10:32:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T10:32:58","slug":"uv-disinfection-trolley-to-effectively-clean-hospital-spaces-in-combating-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/uv-disinfection-trolley-to-effectively-clean-hospital-spaces-in-combating-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"UV disinfection trolley to effectively clean hospital spaces in combating COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-322596 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_20200425-155952__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"1142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_20200425-155952__01.jpg 852w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_20200425-155952__01-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_20200425-155952__01-768x1029.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_20200425-155952__01-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_20200425-155952__01-696x933.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_20200425-155952__01-313x420.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/>International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), an autonomous R&amp;D Centre of Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India and University of Hyderabad (UoH) together with the help of Mekins Industries Ltd. (MIL),\u00a0\u00a0 have developed a UVC based disinfection trolley to fight against COVID-19 by rapid cleaning of hospital environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">UV light in the range of wavelengths between 200 and 300 nm is capable of inactivating microorganisms, such as bacteria and viruses, thus disinfecting both air and solid surfaces<strong>. <\/strong>Often, chemical disinfectants are not enough to remove the bacteria and viruses found in hospitals and other contamination prone environment.Rapid decontamination of the used patient-care beds and hospital rooms before admission of subsequent occupants is a major requirement in hospitals in view of the limited availability of beds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Coronavirus is sensitive to UVC light, as in the case of other viruses and bacteria. The<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0germicidal effects of UVC irradiation with a peak intensity at 254 nm results in cellular damage of the virus, thereby inhibiting cellular replication. Unlike chemical approaches to disinfection, UV light provides rapid, effective inactivation of microorganisms through a physical process.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), an autonomous R&amp;D Centre of Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India and University of Hyderabad (UoH) together with the help of Mekins Industries Ltd. (MIL),\u00a0\u00a0 have developed a UVC based disinfection trolley to fight against COVID-19 by rapid cleaning of hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322597,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322595\/revisions\/322597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}