As Lucija Spiljak/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 3rd of June, 2020, Rotary Hrvatska (Croatia) has very generously donated 29 thermal imaging cameras to health institutions across the Republic of Croatia with a total worth of 2.9 million kuna. They state that the move was made to help hospitals and other healthcare institutions work to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19.
Thermal imaging cameras are used to detect fevers in humans and are useful for monitoring in places with a large flow of people, especially in hospitals. Yesterday, KBC Zagreb officially received the cameras and the director, prof. dr. sc. Ante Ćorušić, pointed out that Rotary Hrvatska’s donation is a valuable help and supplement to gain a better better control of people who come into the hospital during the pandemic.
As they explained from Rotary Hrvatska, thermal imaging cameras help identify people with a fever as a result of any sort of infection, not only one caused by the person having contracted the new coronavirus.
”They were procured after consulting with the medical community, which highlighted them as valuable pieces of equipment which can help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. Fighting disease has so far been one of Rotary Hrvatska’s core activities, and so now, when uncertainty and hardship is affecting our normal lives, our members are doing their best to serve the community in the way that benefits it most,” they state.
They also emphasised that communities want to help with their own donations through the Rotary Foundation as well. Their clubs throughout the Republic of Croatia have already donated significant amounts of protective equipment, and now they want to make an even bigger and longer-term contribution by purchasing and donating thermal imaging cameras to Croatian hospitals and medical facilities.
“At the time when KB Dubrava began dealing with other patients in addition to operating the primary respiratory-intensive care centre for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, the need for thermal imaging cameras positioned at the main entrance to the hospital gained additional significance because they provided a reliable and very simple way of checking the body temperature of a large number of people, with minimal involvement of hospital staff.
This helps in many ways to fight the spread of COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 and ensures safe work within the ‘clean’ part of the hospital,” explained prof. dr. sc. Ivica Luksic, the coordinator for the organisation of the hospital treatment of patients who have contracted COVID-19 for the City of Zagreb and northwestern Croatia.
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