Covid-19: IIT Ropar prepares 6 litres sanitizers; can prepare 70 litres per hour; wait for government nod

PATIALA: With the increasing demand and thus prices of sanitizers following the threat of Covid19 the IIT Ropar is ready with their own sanitizers which they can make available to anyone in critical need. The scientists have prepared only six litres of sanitizer and had 50 litres of raw material stored with them.
The researchers claimed that they can prepare 70 litres of sanitizer in an hour.However, at this moment the institute has manufactured the hand sanitizer for their staff of IIT Ropar and the transport staff.
The researchers claimed to have prepared the hand-sanitizers with the standards of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Centres of Disease Control which is a Federal Health Agency in the US.
"The composition of the hand sanitizer consists of 70 per cent isopropyl alcohol, glycerol and other chemicals with standards of the World Health Organisation. Around 50 per cent of alcohol is required to kill the micro-organism. We have prepared 6 litres for our faculty members. In the need of the hour we are glad to come up with the sanitizer which is almost unavailable in the market. We have a raw-material stock of around 50 litres of sanitizer and we can prepare 70 litres of sanitizer in an hour", said, Dr T J Dhilip, Head of Department Chemistry at IIT Ropar.
IIT Ropar Director SK Das said, "We have prepared the sanitizer with standards of WHO and we are first using for our staff. It will be difficult to prepare and give to the public as we don't have that much capacity. But, we can give it to the critical cases including if the administration needs for the quarantine of suspects. We can also provide to the civil hospital in Ropar or to help someone. We are not looking at the production cost right now as we have only motive to support the community in the times of need. We are trying to get some more chemicals for more production"
Deputy Commissioner Ropar Sonali Giri said that under the disaster management fund they have already procured sanitizers and masks required for the process of quarantine of suspects however if the need arises the communication in this regard will be done with the institute.