Masks sit on the shelf of a one-of-a-kind mobile sanitation cabinet created by the University of Idaho Engineering Department. The cabinet is now in use by St. Joseph’s Medical Center.
(Photo courtesy UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING)
April 16, 2020
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Local helps build mask disinfectant station
Somewhere in the confines of St. Joseph Regional Medical Center stands a one-of-a-kind mobile sanitation cabinet powered by Ultraviolet C that can clean 24 healthcare masks every 10 minutes. This cabinet was delivered on April 9 after two weeks of designing, building and validating the prototype by a team of professors and graduates at the University of Idaho, including Sandpoint native and biological engineering research support scientist Chad Dunkel.