Epidemic Healthcare Kiosk: A Social Economic Remote Solution Using IoT

1. Introduction

Life is all about living to face challenges. There have always been such challenges and threats in planet Earth. The possibilities of new infectious diseases outbreak is also on the rise, referred as Pandemic. Such Pandemic like COVID-19 has already created havoc throughout the world. The devastation continues to spike the mortality rate in every piece of land causing significant social, economic, and political disorder. Jones et al. (2008) suggested in 2008, that the likelihood of pandemics has amplified over the past century due to increased global travel and integration, urbanization, changes in land use, and greater exploitation of the natural environment. Healthcare sources and their personnel are not immune to infection. In fact, they are at a higher increased risk for contracting pandemic because of their constant exposure to infected patients. In the midst of COVID-19 pandemic and the devastated world healthcare system, technology for healthcare providers is promising as an efficient and sustainable elucidation for control, precaution, prevention and management to stem the spread of such pandemic.