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Lift a Life

UniversityRhode Island School of Design
Lead DesignersVidur Madhav
Prize(s)Bronze in Industrial And Life Science Design / Medical Furniture
Entry Description

Lift a life, is a logistical aid to the patient during their journey in a rural Indian hospital. Individual modules can be used as transfer boards, a combination of two modules form a traditional scoop stretcher and an interconnection of three modules makes a makeshift bed. Each typology caters to the existing loopholes in the logistical journey of the patient by offering different mediums of transfer and waiting-related solutions. A single module is a movable connection between a plank and a U-Frame, is lightweight and designed for easy use by trained and untrained attendants of the patients.