Open AccessMobile Swab Collection Vehicle; a Blend of Necessity, Innovation, and Technology in a Resource-poor Country
Author(s) -
A Neopane,
Sailendra Kumar Duwal Shrestha,
Suman Raj Dangol,
Bikal Shrestha,
Ashis Dutta,
Gauri Adhikari,
Jenny Mandal,
Hem Raj Khadka,
Shanker Dhakal
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of nepal health research council
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1999-6217
pISSN - 1727-5482
DOI - 10.33314/jnhrc.v18i4.3230
Subject(s) - covid-19 , data collection , resource (disambiguation) , business , pandemic , computer science , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , mathematics , disease , pathology , computer network , statistics
Mobile Swab Collection Vehicle is a concept that has been innovated by a team of medical and non-medical personals based upon the dire need to perform throat or nasopharyngeal swab collections to do reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction ‘RT-PCR’ quickly, safely, and comfortably during this Corona Virus Diseases 2019, ‘COVID-19’ pandemic in a resource-poor country like Nepal. Inputs from the health care workers, beneficiaries, and engineers have been taken to construct this vehicle-mounted booth for swab collection. This vehicle is the ‘first of its kind’ in Nepal. Keywords: COVID-19; Nepal; swab collection vehicle