Transport Warmer for Infants


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Creator/Artist: Roshan Lawrence Valder

Category: Product Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2008-2010

Source: India,   IDC

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. R. Sandesh


Detailed Description

Neonatal care for preterm infants remains one of the most basic needs in India that is difficult to access. Special wards known as Neonatal intensive care units exist only in tertiary hospitals owing to the specialist equipment and staff required to run them. This project owes its beginnings to observing the general condition of neonatal care in the country. There were reports of babies being baked in incubators and equipment failing. Some news excerpts are given below. This was the trigger point in the whole investigation into looking at infant incubators. Over the course of the research, other issues rose apart from the glaring problems with incubators mentioned above. These were issues of crowding of the incubators with multiple infants, lack of space, issues of transport, sheer lack of incubators, and cost of equipment. Apart from the scarcity of equipment, there is a scarcity of staff and supporting structure. It was realised that neonatal care needed a system-level intervention and not just a product-level intervention. Though the issues were many and some out of the scope of a design project, the focus was given to the transport of the preterm infants. The safe and secure travel of these infants is as necessary as being in an incubator in a NICU.