Scientists from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology have constructed a lock for the effective isolation of people infected with the coronavirus. The first cabins have already been installed in hospitals in Legnica and Wrocław.
The prototype of the lock was created in June 2020 as a response to the problem of effective isolation of patients with COVID-19, especially in facilities and wards not adapted to this challenge. The goal was to design a quick-assembly lock that would provide medical personnel with better protection than, for example, alternatively used strip curtains, and would be cheap (up to approx. PLN 3,000) and easy to disinfect.
The researchers decided to use the construction of aluminum groove profiles popular in the industry, built-in with cell polycarbonate walls using double-sided tape for joining this type of materials. All stages of the work were consulted with the microbiologist of the 10th Military Clinical Hospital in Bydgoszcz, where patients with COVID-19 are hospitalized.
