Aims to install more than 50,000 step-down ICU beds across India by end of 2021
Dozee has launched MillionICU, an initiative to address the massive shortage of ICU beds and staff in public hospitals. The initiative will raise funds to upgrade normal beds in government hospitals across India into Step-Down ICUs, using Dozee’s contactless sensor, in under five minutes and enable remote and central monitoring of patients at ward level.
The initiative will enable the hospitals to tide over the current COVID-19 crisis in the short term and bring about a rapid, long-term transformation in India’s public healthcare infrastructure. The company has set a goal of installing 50,000 step-down ICU beds across India in the next six months and take it to one million in the next three years. The initiative has already benefited 25 such hospitals across 15 districts with more than 10,000 patients being monitored and having saved 25000+ nursing hours.
The hospital beds will be installed with Dozee’s contactless sensors featuring an AI-powered triaging system that enables continuous (more than 100 times per hour) and accurate monitoring of a patient’s heart rate, respiratory rate, and other clinical parameters like sleep apnea and myocardial performance metrics without coming in contact with the patient.
Dozee will also set up a 24×7 central monitoring cell which will enable healthcare staff to monitor multiple patients remotely who were previously monitored manually only every couple of hours.
