Mobile Telemedicine Kiosk for Tele-Burn Ward Consultations During COVID-19 Period

COVID-19 pandemic is a testing time for every branch of medicine which opened up a new challenge of protecting themselves meantime treating the sick without compromise. For example, treating burns patients, who are very vulnerable for COVID-19 infection. One of the most important step in minimizing the spread of COVID-19 infection is by maintaining social distancing. Now Telemedicine is being revisited as a tool in implementing social distancing, thus providing a safer healthcare. The Telemedicine consultation can be done with Telemedicine Kiosk, hand held devices like smart phone, PTZ camera or drones. The commercially available Telemedicine devices are costly especially Telemedicine Kiosk. Here in this article we are share our experience of using a Telemedicine Kiosk to continue the burns care even during the COVID-19. This Kiosk was made from the materials already available in the department.