Made In India Cardboard Bed Costs Rs 900, And Gets Ready In Minutes For COVID-19 Cases

We are all experiencing the kind of chaos the COVID-19 pandemic is causing in our world. People are experiencing a shortage of food, basic necessities, while hospitals experience shortage of personal protective equipment, face masks, ventilators and hospital beds.

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However, today the conditions aren¡¯t as bad as they¡¯re in the US or Italy. Regardless, to be prepared for the worst, innovators are gearing up with novel solutions to take down the coronavirus, and one Aryan Paper Group from Vapi, Gujarat, have developed a portable and light bed made entirely out of cardboard.

The bed was designed to be easy to carry around and install on makeshift hospitals in rural and urban areas, should such situations arise.

Now in case you were wondering about the structural integrity of the beds, considering they¡¯re made of cardboard, you¡¯d be surprised to know that these can easily withstand weight up to 200 kilograms while weighing just under 10 kilograms.

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Moreover, the bed is designed keeping medical use in mind, thus it is coated with a special chemical that makes it water repellant, basically, even if some liquid spills on it, it won¡¯t affect the bed¡¯s structural integrity.

One of the best things about the design is that it¡¯s completely tool-less, meaning you don¡¯t need nails, hammer, to build it. Just connect cardboard using slots (just like in arts and crafts projects in school) and the entire bed is ready to admit a patient in minutes. And since the bed is made of cardboard, it is biodegradable, which means it won¡¯t cause unnecessary waste in dumping grounds.

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Sure, the bed cannot be used for extremely critical patients, since they are normally taken from one facility to another for tests, but this can surely come in helpful for not very serious cases.

Each bed can roughly cost you between Rs 900 to Rs 1000, along with the additional cost for transport depending on the location. They¡¯re currently supplying to Gujarat government, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai as well as the Indian Navy.