UV STERILIZATION DEVICE FOR PERSONAL ITEM-RELATED INFECTION CONTROL DURING MEDICAL PRACTICE IN HEALTH FACILITIES.

Abstract

Multidisciplinary design is one of the requirements for the award of a National Diploma in Biomedical Engineering considered with great importance by UBTEB to produce future employees who are competent enough to work for the betterment of Uganda’s Health. As such students are required to design any medical equipment about the needs in the health environment.

This report is the record of what we did that includes identification of a real-life problem and an innovative solution to the problem. This was covered between August and November 2022.

The report consists of three chapters that altogether explain the public health need and impact, conception of the innovation, and project management. This entails identification of the need from the source, definition of the problem and the objectives of the project, product design specifications, various design alternatives and justification of the selected design alternatives, project work plan, and conclusion.

Public health need and impact which includes an introduction of the need, problem statement, and current solutions to needs, their impacts and gaps, and the project objectives.

Conception of the innovation and this includes; introduction of the innovation, product design specification/criteria for success, project idea generation, and project idea selection.

Introductions of engineering analysis of the proposed solution, its principle and mechanism of operation, and the material analysis and simulation of the proposed solution.