Senegalese engineering students are throwing themselves at the West African state's growing coronavirus problem with inventions such as automatic sanitiser dispensers and medical robots.
Youngsters from a top engineering school in the capital Dakar have turned their technical skills toward easing pressure on the wards -- and they are already in talks with hospitals over some of their innovations.
One example is a small robot, dubbed 'Dr. Car', which will be able to measure patients' blood pressure and temperature, according to students from Dakar's Ecole Superieure Polytechnique (how much does a computer engineer make). The university is considered one of West Africa's best for engineering and technology, and is highly selective, with 28 nationalities represented among its 4,000 students.
Lamine Mouhamed Kebe, one of the students who conceived the robot, said the machine would reduce the exposure of doctors and nurses to infected patients and use of expensive protective gear. "At a certain point ... we realised that medical equipment was limited," the 23-year-old added. "We can do something".
Youngsters from a top engineering school in the capital Dakar have turned their technical skills toward easing pressure on the wards -- and they are already in talks with hospitals over some of their innovations.
One example is a small robot, dubbed 'Dr. Car', which will be able to measure patients' blood pressure and temperature, according to students from Dakar's Ecole Superieure Polytechnique (how much does a computer engineer make). The university is considered one of West Africa's best for engineering and technology, and is highly selective, with 28 nationalities represented among its 4,000 students.
Lamine Mouhamed Kebe, one of the students who conceived the robot, said the machine would reduce the exposure of doctors and nurses to infected patients and use of expensive protective gear. "At a certain point ... we realised that medical equipment was limited," the 23-year-old added. "We can do something".
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