By Clement Uwiringiyimana
KIGALI (Reuters) - at the Kanyinya COVID-19 treatment facility a short distance from Rwanda's main Kigali, Akazuba, Ikizere and Ngabo explain though duty, still these are no mutual health worry workers.
In a bid ought minimize face among patients infected with the coronavirus and doctors and nurses, the crowd has deployed the three robots ought perform stupid tasks alike taking temperatures and monitoring patients.
The sleek white robots, with big brilliant gloomy eyes and a pretty human appearance, were donated by the United Nations development design (UNDP) and are helping frontline workers tackle the coronavirus emergency at the East African crowd which consequently far has 355 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 disease.
"The three robots that we dine are divide of the treating team," said David Turatsinze, a physician at the 75-bed facility, which housed 65 patients when the Reuters team visited.
By relaying messaGEs ought doctors and helping the team appraise the effectiveness of their clinical decisions, the robots chop the amount of bedside visits that doctors dine ought make.
Francine Umutesi, a bio-Medical engineer who plant though a health technique operations specialist at the ministry of health, said the robots were a first though Africa and had the latent ought offer even more uphold ought Medical teams.
"It doesn't shift the tasks the doctors are supposed ought do, it's impartial complementing their efforts," she said.
Rwanda already uses drones ought send blood and enforce restrictions designed ought slow the scatter of COVID-19. There are two more robots at the country's other COVID-19 treatment center, Nyamata, at south east Kigali.
Officials said the robots will exist programmed ought perform additional tasks.
"In the future if they are programmed ought identify even blood strain and the (blood) sugar, that definitely used to exist consequently helpful," said Turatsinze.
(Writing by Duncan Miriri; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)
