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ORS DISPENSING MACHINE ( Patent Registration under process)

Innovative concept to make distribution of ORS more effective to prevent
Dehydration, saving lives of Children in Rural Areas

CONCEPT & PROPOSAL

The proposal being submitted for your kind and positive consideration has significant
importance from the point of Child Health Care Programs being implemented for the
benefits of children especially in Rural areas in our country under various RURAL
DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL WELFARE & HEALTH PROGRAMS and NATIONAL RURAL
HEALTH MISSION

Due to unhygienic living conditions and poor quality of drinking water in rural areas, the
percentage of children and even adults suffering from Diarrhoea and Cholera is very high.
Many of them die due to dehydration.
By administering Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT), their lives can definitely be saved.
Under various Health care programs, Oral Rehydration Salts formulated as per WHO
recommended standards are distributed. However, there are several constraints and
conditions that limit the use of ORS and ultimately severity of Dehydration problem hardly
reduces.

On studying the problems and difficulties associated with distribution of ORS, an innovative,
practical and appropriate ORS Dispensing System is designed and developed solely by us.
( Patent under process)

The proposal is to distribute SAFE ORS THROUGH THE ORS DISPENSING MACHINES to
make ORT more effective protecting children / adults from dehydration reducing the severity
and deaths.

By installing ORS DISPENSING MACHINES as a part of Child Health Care

(CRH) Programs, Safe ORSolution can be made available at point of use,
Especially in Rural areas helping minimize mortality of children due to
Dehydration

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 BACKGRPOUND

Dehydration
Diarrhoea causes dehydration, which kills approximately 2.2 million children
Every year. Diarrhoea is also a major cause of child malnutrition.

Mortality
Diarrhoea is one of the greatest causes of child deaths and is responsible for 19 per cent of
the deaths of children less than five years old in developing countries.

Distribution of deaths among children less than 5 years old

in all developing countries, 1995

ORT & ITS IMPORTANCE-

Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS), a mixture of water, salts and glucose in specific proportions is
proved to be the best way to rehydrate a child suffering from diarrhoea.

Oral Rehydration Therapy means feeding freshly prepared OR Solution to the patient to
prevent Dehydration caused due to Diarrhoea or Cholera

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 As soon as diarrhoea begins, ORT needs to be immediately administered

Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) is a simple, cost-effective treatment given at home using
either a simple home made solution of sugar, salt and water or a packet of Oral Rehydration
Salts (ORS).
This can prevent about 90% of child deaths from diarrhoeal dehydration.

It's the most effective, least expensive way to manage diarrhoeal dehydration
Unfortunately, people in rural areas do not get it when they need it due to
various practical difficulties and situations

PRACTICAL PROBLEMS IN SERVING SAFE ORS

1. OR Solution prepared using available water especially in rural areas is contaminated

with pathogens.
2. At places where access to potable water is limited, ORS is prepared in water that is not
chlorinated or boiled
3. At health centers, clinics, ORS is prepared and stored in open vessels, buckets,
containers that are not properly cleaned. Also, staff or patients take such solution
dipping cups and hands
4. Prepared ORS easily supports growth and survival of many types of enteropathogenic
bacterias.
5. Preparation of fresh ORS for each and every patient is not practically feasible due to
limited number of staff and other required facilities.
Generally therefore, it is observed that, due to several factors and limitations
especially in rural areas, contaminated ORS is ingested by patients.

WHO recommends that boiled or chlorinated water be used to prepare

ORS, and that prepared ORS be discarded after 24 hr.

However, boiling the amount of water recommended for oral rehydration is time-
consuming and often impractical when fuel is scarce. Use of chlorinated water is not
the option at most of rural places since it’s not at all available there.

ORS DISPENSING MACHINE – AN APPROPRIATE DEVICE

( Patent registration under process)
ORS DISPENSING MACHINE is an Innovation developed with the prime objective to
overcome the existing practical problems faced in serving OR Solution and to make
available easily and conveniently SAFE ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION to
Patients to prevent them from dehydration.
ORS Dispensing Machine Features in attached sheet

Prepared & Submitted by

Dynavend Machines Pvt. Ltd. Pune

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