{"id":41342,"date":"2020-05-09T17:39:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T17:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-using-robots-to-fight-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-05-13T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:23:02","slug":"rwanda-using-robots-to-fight-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-using-robots-to-fight-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda using robots to fight COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ministry of Health revealed this on Friday as the Director General of Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana communicated to different stakeholders. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are introducing the use of robots in the management of our #COVID19 Treatment Centres to reduce transmission risks. Robots will screen temperature, monitor status, keep medical records of Patients,\u201d Dr. Nsanzimana revealed on Friday, sharing a video of one of the robots. <\/p>\n

Speaking on Rwanda Television on Friday, the Minister of Health Dr. Daniel Ngamije revealed that five robots have been named Urumuri, Icyizere, Kazuba, Ngabo, and Mwiza and they will be helping in the handling of COVID-19 tests.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese robots will support us in different ways but most importantly they will be used to test patients\u2019 temperature and status of breathing among other tasks, which will help us minimize human-to-human contact,\u201d Dr. Ngamije said, adding that more robots will be arriving in the country soon. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey will help us reduce the number of times a doctor or nurse gets in contact with the patient and also help our medical personnel to handle many cases at the same time and also have time to rest,,\u201d the Minister said. <\/p>\n

Dr. Ngamije said the robots will be deployed in places where many people convene such as bus terminals, to do random tests and identify people who could have signs of COVID-19. <\/p>\n

Countries around the world have been using robots to fight New Coronavirus where the machines are used to assist humans to contain the spread of the virus. Several countries including China, Japan, US, and UK have been deploying robots to handle risky tasks.<\/p>\n

\u201cRobots have the potential to be deployed for disinfection, delivering medications and food, measuring vital signs, and assisting border controls. As epidemics escalate, the potential roles of robotics are becoming increasingly clear.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cFor disease prevention, robot-controlled non-contact ultraviolet (UV) surface disinfection is being used because COVID-19 spreads not only from person to person via close contact respiratory droplet transfer but also via contaminated surfaces,\u201d a study published in the Science Robotics says.<\/p>\n

China is using robots to disinfect places, which has helped to contain the spread of the virus which was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province of the Asian country.<\/p>\n

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Rwanda will start using robots in the fight against Covid-19 where programmable machines will be used to do some of the tasks with the ultimate goal of reducing human-to-human contact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[2942],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-nicole-kamanzi-m"],"bylines":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41342"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41342"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}