COVID BEEP

GS PAPER II: Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.

Context: Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh says, Department of Atomic Energy supplementing Country’s COVID infrastructure to fight the pandemic.

About COVID BEEP:

• COVID BEEP (Continuous Oxygenation & Vital Information Detection Biomed ECIL ESIC Pod), was launched in June 2020.
• The system was developed by Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) in collaboration with IIT Hyderabad and ESIC Medical College Hyderabad.
• It was India’s first indigenous, cost effective, wireless physiological parameters monitoring system for COVID-19 patients.
• 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.

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1716810