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The lack of crucial protective devices puts health care workers at increased risk of infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease.
On March 31, 2020, the CDC released Crisis Standards of Care Recommendations for N95 Decontamination.

During Corona Pandemic, IIT Bombay Hospital, security staff, maintenance and health office staff are facing an acute shortage of masks.
Make your own reusable Cotton Masks by following the simple steps:
Credits: IIT Bombay

Face shields are personal protective equipment devices that are used for protection of the facial area and associated mucous membranes (eyes, nose, mouth) from splashes, sprays, and spatter of body fluids. Venture Center has assembled a team to design a face shield using very economic materials and which is suitable for scalable manufacturing processes.

Credits: Maker' Asylum & Protoshop, Venture Center

A ventilator is a machine designed to provide mechanical ventilation by moving breathable air into and out of the lungs, to deliver breaths to a patient who is physically unable to breathe, or breathing insufficiently.
For more info on making your own ventilators please click below.

To help countries and health-care facilities to achieve system change and adopt alcohol-based handrubs as the gold standard for hand hygiene in health care, WHO has identified formulations for their local preparation. Logistic, economic, safety, and cultural and religious factors have all been carefully considered by WHO before recommending such formulations for use worldwide.

Source: www.who.int/gpsc/information_centre/handrub-formulations/en/

Make your own IR thermometer using readily available modules. Mobile phone or Power banks can be used as a power source.

Credits: BMek and Protoshop, Venture Center

Coordinator- Protoshop Sayali is Coordinator-Protoshop at Venture Center. She is B.E.(Instrumentation & Control Engineer) from University of Pune. She is running current facilities in Protoshop. She operates all the instruments in lab, provides training, plans & executes setting up & maintenance work in Protoshop also involved in creating, planning and organizing technical and scientific workshops & hands-on lab exercises with Tinkering lab instruments.

Packaging & Sterilization Lab is well equipped with Vertical Autoclave, Ethylene Oxide Sterilizer and a Pedal Operated Hot Bar Sealer.

Electronics Lab is ESD protected and equipped with Spectrum Analyzer Mixed Domain Oscilloscope, Arbitrary Function Generator, Digital Storage Oscilloscope, Digital Multi Meter 6 ½ Digit, Multiple Output DC Power supply, Circuit Board Plotter, De-solder/Solder Rework System, Potentiostat/Galvanostat/Impedance Analyzer.

Rupee Lab is well equipped with Pelletizer, Lab Valley Beater, Doctor Blade, Two Roll Mill, Beating & Freeness Tester, Semi-Automated Sheet Former, Super Mass Collider, etc,.

Mechanical Fab Lab is well equipped with standard hardware, measuring and calibration tools along with a 4 axis Vertical Machining Center (VMC) & Power tools which provides a perfect ground for the entrepreneurs to shape their prototype models.

Optic' s Lab is well equipped with Research Spectroflurometer, Fiber' s, Spectrometer-FLAME-NIR, Spectrometer-FLAME UV.

Dark Room is equipped with an Optical Table i.e., a Vibration Control Platform that is used to support systems used for laser- and optics-related experiments, engineering and manufacturing.

Processing Lab is well equipped with Hot Air Oven's, Muffle Furnace, Autoclave, Convection Oven, Hydraulic Press, Ball Mill Grinder, Injection Moulding Machine.

Design & Prototyping Lab consists of CAD & CAE facility for Design and Simulation (Solidworks 2018), 3D Printers, Industrial 3D Scanners, CO2 Laser Cutter, and a Graphic Plotter.