Friday, December 18, 2015

innovative products for hospital visitors

Innovative product for hospital visitors and travellers.
-Sheikh Anwar Ullah Khoundkar Aakash, Pioneer Dental colege,

When someone beloved to us is admitted to hospital for treatment, sometimes it becomes necessary that one or more relative of the patient stay at the hospital so they may provide money for medicine if any medicine needs to be administered instantly or if there is any urgent news update about the patient's condition to be provided to the family.
Relatives of Patients in ICU, they will stay at night, at Bongobandhu medical, Shahabag, Dhaka, Bangladesh .

In such cases patients relative often face a dilemma trying to find how or where they'll spend the night. Often the patient's relative has to sit down still on a chair and stay up all night guarding the important things and papers and money brought for emergency, and become tired and even sick himself staying like that. Hospital often don't or rather can't provide necessary arrangements and space for such people staying for their sick relative.
Again there's always waiting for a train or bus that's late on schedule can be very tiring, specially if there's a shortage of seats in the passengers waiting room. People often has to take turns to sit down for their family members.

So a specially designed products for such people can be made so they face less difficulties staying at the hospitals or waiting in a station for the buss or train.

Here's a design for a product that may be useful in such circumstances -

The Ease chair -Trolley luggage.

A special product in a form of a safe that can be used as a relaxing ease chair. This will be specially useful if someone has to stay all night waiting somewhere.

Our first objective is to get a portable ease chair. Such products are already available on market. However it may be a little awkward for a person to visit a petient in hospitals or go to a bus or train station carrying around a plastic chair. Again there are such durable bags and luggage that have wheels and handles openup to give the bag a trolley like function. So if we can make a luggage/suitcase that will open up to become a chair then it will solve the problem of sitting and waiting in a station or hospitals.

A special material(pink) similar to a soft synthetic skin covered yet tough and durable chair seats will be used for this product.

This will be on the top and either side of the song plastic box/suitcase. And the wing like flaps can be opened up to make it a ease chair so an adult person can sleep comfortably on it. Extra pillars may be attached for edditional support.

An attachable inflatable/sponge pillow can also be used for sleeping purpose.

Again if more than one person needs to sit, then it's wings may be unfold and spread out in a horizontal position and with added extra supporting detachable legs, more people can sit on it as a bench.



This box will be made from recyclable durable strong plastics or light but strong aluminium alloys, so they'llbe light and portable as well. The same kind of strong lasting plastic that's now a days are being popularly used to produce furniture and underground piping.
Special strong and durable plastic materials are now a days being used to produce fine lasting furniture. The same kind of plastic materials may be used to produce the item being discussed here.

Highly specialised polymer material are now being used to produce pipes that are capable of withstanding extreme pressure when used underground. If this same material is used for the box's frame work then we may get a good durable yet cheap and portable useful item.

And if plastic materials are not strong enough then there are many different types of composite materials in the market. Many of which are quite strong and durable, and are used to produce furniture and doors. Composite materials can be very strong and durable, they are also used in medical and dental prosthetic treatment.

The body of the box (yellow) will be made from durable strong plastics, the same used to produce furniture and underground piping. Special strong and durable plastic pipes will be used to make the framework(yellow lines) of the box.

Counter positioned Arch shaped tubes (made from pressure resistant plastic) will be added in the walls of the box for increased strength and durability.

One of the priority is security of the goods being carried around with. Sometimes when someone is staying at the hospitals for night for a relative admitted there, s/he has to stay awake all night guarding the important things and papers with her/him and it can be very tiring and sometimes the patient's relative becomes sick himself/herself due to the lack of sleep. So the box also needs to come with some container functions and anti theft locking features.

The top of the box can be opened up as a lead to open a specialised compartment inside. The lid will come with special locking mechanism. And the body will be double layered with the arches are sandwiched between layers.

With chair sitting atop the lead, it will be impossible to steal from inside the box. And it will be possible to get some sleep without worrying.

But what if the entire thing actually becomes too heavy? Solution is add wheels to make it a trolley.
These wheels will be retractable or made with special break-locking mechanism, so that the wheels can be retracted inside when someone is sitting on the box. This will remove the risk of the wheels being fractured. A detachable/retractable handle will come with the item so that the user may attach it and use the luggage with a trolley like locomotion.

So if menufecturing companies makes such a product. I believe people will be greatly helped.