IIT-Kanpur develops oxygen audit app
KANPUR : The Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) has developed an oxygen audit application and handed it over to the state government within days of being asked to do so. “We have given the application to the government,” said Prof Manindra Agarwal, head of the computer science department at IIT-K.
KANPUR: The Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) has developed an oxygen audit application and handed it over to the state government within days of being asked to do so.
“We have given the application to the government,” said Prof Manindra Agarwal, head of the computer science department at IIT-K.
People familiar with the matter at IIT Kanpur said all the hospitals would start using the app once it gets approval from the government. Prof Agarwal said the team used inputs from IIMLucknow (Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow), Indian Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU), Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj (CSJM) Kanpur University and Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology-Prayagraj (MNNIT-Prayagraj).
“It is a simple and effective application that will determine the exact need of oxygen in the hospital,” he said. ACS (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi said that to ensure rational use of medical oxygen in hospitals across the state, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur developed a software for a strong oxygen audit system in UP.
Other institutes will support the audit work of oxygen across the state, he added.
All the hospitals would have this application on which they would feed the demand, consumption and supply related inputs related to oxygen.
Oxygen would be supplied to the hospitals on the basis of these inputs.
Amid the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, chief minister Yogi Adityanath had on April 24 asked for an oxygen audit system and bestowed the responsibility on IIT-Kanpur and other premier institutes.
“The application will run on algorithm that would make precise calculations of the actual need in a hospital on the basis of data fed by the hospitals,” said Prof Agarwal. It would help in checking wastage and ensuring early arrangement of oxygen in case a hospital needs it.
Prof Vinay Pathak, vice chancellor of CSJM University-Kanpur, said IIT-Kanpur was tasked with development of the application and universities had the responsibility of collecting oxygen related information from hospitals. The data would be fed on the application on which an algorithm report would be prepared, he said.
For example, the university would take records from Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM) Medical College and affiliated hospitals in Kanpur, the Harcourt Butler Technology University would get it for Saifai Medical Institute and IIT-BHU would collect data from hospitals in and around Varanasi.