A mobile ICU is priced at $ 99,000.
After the epidemic situation in China was controlled, new coronaviruses began to spread in European and American countries. Many of them have fallen into medical crisis. The problems of insufficient beds and insufficient supply of protective equipment need to be solved urgently.
Foreign Techcrunch Recently reported a new company called Jupe, whose founding team includes an emergency room doctor, a crisis response specialist, and a Public health researchers hope to provide solutions to the upcoming shortage of space in hospitals and medical facilities.
Specifically, Jupe has developed a set of “mobile wards” that can be quickly deployed to meet the needs of intensive care, light rehabilitation, and general population isolation. Jupe said the mobile ward would cost about a third of the cost of a standard ward and could be shipped anywhere using existing logistics infrastructure. Before joining the mobile ward, Jupe’s products were mainly provided to people in need of shelter after natural disasters, or homeless homeless people, providing them with modular housing.
In the past few months of anti-epidemic experience, we can see that the rapid construction of Vulcan Mountain and Thunder Mountain has treated a large number of patients, alleviating the problem of insufficient hospital beds and played a very important role.
Jupe currently has three products, namely: 1. Rest , which mainly provides front-line medical staff with a place to rest and sleep; 2. Care room (CARE), services need to be isolated but not Patients in need of critical care include a solar / battery-powered solution; 3. The Plus version is basically equivalent to an independent ICU and contains various medical equipment such as ventilators for patients in need of critical care.
The epidemic is gradually spreading, and medical shortages are getting worse. Jupe also wants to seize this point of time to take quick action. Currently, some samples have been established in Texas, starting from simple rest rooms and care. Started, and is committed to producing more complex Plus versions of mobile ICU as soon as possible.
According to the founding team, in terms of portability, Jupe’s products support folding, and can transport up to 24 at a time on a 40-foot flatbed trailer; it can also be shipped in a container and shipped overseas A standard container can hold 500,000 wards. According to the introduction, these wards are simple to install, and one person can set up a ward in just “minutes”.
Jupe’s Texas facility is currently producing the first 24 wards and hopes to rapidly expand production through the use of the local leisure travel car manufacturing supply chain. Rest rooms will be sold for $ 14,500, while treatment rooms and enhanced versions will be priced at $ 78,000 and $ 99,000. Jupe said that these wards will be sold at a cost price without any profit, and the team will also work on a volunteer basis.