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AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> At the Kanyinya Covid-19 treatment facility a short distance from Rwanda\u2019s capital Kigali, Fairmont The Norfolk\u2019s and Ngabo report for duty, but these are no ordinary health care workers.<\/p>\n

In a bid to minimise contact between patients infected with the coronavirus and doctors and nurses, the country has deployed the three robots to carry out simple tasks like taking temperatures and monitoring patients.<\/p>\n

The sleek white robots, with big bright blue eyes and a rather human appearance, were donated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and are helping frontline workers tackle the coronavirus crisis in the East African nation which so far has 370 confirmed cases and one death of the Covid-19 disease.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe three robots that we have are part of the treating team,\u201d said David Turatsinze, a doctor at the 75-bed facility, which housed 65 patients when the Reuters team visited.<\/p>\n

By relaying messages to doctors and helping the team assess the effectiveness of their clinical decisions, the robots cut the number of bedside visits that doctors have to make.Francine Umutesi, a bio-medical engineer who works as a health technology operations specialist at the ministry of health, said the robots were a first for Africa and had the potential to offer even more support to medical teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t remove the tasks the doctors are supposed to do, it\u2019s just complementing their efforts,\u201d she said.Rwanda already uses drones to deliver blood and enforce restrictions designed to slow the spread of Covid-19. There are two more robots at the country\u2019s other Covid-19 treatment centre, Nyamata, in south east Kigali.Officials said the robots will be programmed to carry out additional tasks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the future if they are programmed to take even blood pressure and the (blood) sugar, that definitely would be so helpful,\u201d said Turatsinze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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