As part of India’s ‘Aarogya Maitri’ initiative to provide essential medical supplies to friendly countries, the High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka presented state-of-the-art Arogya Maitri Cube to Sri Lanka These medical cubes have been indigenously developed under the Project BHISHM (Bharat Health Initiative for Sahyog Hita and Maitri).
- The cage can fit in 36 mini-cubes, including almost everything that can be packed for survival for a period of 48 hours for 100 survivors.
- The design allows joining two cages – master cube one and master cube two, including 72 cubes in total – with damage control capabilities for 200 survivors.
- The product is the result of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s project Bhishma announcement in February 2022, following which the Ministry of Defence constituted a task force.
- At the Global South Summit in January 2023, PM Modi announced the ‘Aarogya Maitri’ project under which India will provide essential medical supplies to any developing country affected by natural disaster or humanitarian crisis.
- The project was publicly launched at the MedTech Expo at Gandhinagar, Gujarat in August alongside the G20 Health Ministers’ Meeting, where it was officially demonstrated, for the first time, to Myanmar officials in July 2023.
