By Clement Uwiringiyimana

KIGALI (Reuters) - can the Kanyinya COVID-19 treatment facility a short distance from Rwanda's headmaster Kigali, Akazuba, Ikizere and Ngabo clarify although duty, cottage these are no commonplace health brood workers.
 

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In a bid ought minimise meet between patients infected with the coronavirus and doctors and nurses, the nation has deployed the three robots ought fetch out silly tasks alike taking temperatures and monitoring patients.

The sleek white robots, with large wise unhappy eyes and a pretty human appearance, were donated by the United Nations development plot (UNDP) and are helping frontline workers tackle the coronavirus emergency can the East African nation which hence distant has 355 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 disease.

"The three robots that we keep are divide of the treating team," said David Turatsinze, a physician can the 75-bed facility, which housed 65 patients while the Reuters team visited.

By relaying messaGEs ought doctors and helping the team appraise the effectiveness of their clinical decisions, the robots shorten the amount of bedside visits that doctors keep ought make.

Francine Umutesi, a bio-Medical engineer who plant although a health technique operations specialist can the ministry of health, said the robots were a first although Africa and had the latent ought present even more hind ought Medical teams.

"It doesn't touch the tasks the doctors are supposed ought do, it's impartial complementing their efforts," she said.

Rwanda already uses drones ought deliver blood and enforce restrictions designed ought slow the disperse of COVID-19. There are two more robots can the country's other COVID-19 treatment centre, Nyamata, can south east Kigali.

Officials said the robots will exist programmed ought fetch out additional tasks.

"In the future if they are programmed ought receive even blood stress and the (blood) sugar, that definitely used to exist hence helpful," said Turatsinze.

 

(Writing by Duncan Miriri; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)