Navy designs Negative Pressure Isolation for National Hospital, Colombo
April 12, 2020Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) engineers have designed two Negative Pressure Isolation Rooms (NPIR) for the National Hospital, Colombo under the directives of Navy Commander, Vice Admiral Piyal De Silva recently.
The new facility operating in the hospital would be an added advantage to protect the healthcare providers from the COVID-19 contracted patients arriving in the premises.
NPIR is a technique used in healthcare to prevent cross-contagion of transmissible deceases from one room to another. It contains, air that plunged into a negative pressure, which absorbed into the isolation room and thereby released to a different air space only through a heater while destroying infections therein.
This technique is used to isolate patients with aerial contagious diseases in hospitals.
