Covid-19: Senegal engineering students fight virus with inventions

Kebe (right) and Pape Mamadou Gueye (left), a bachelor's student in mechanical engineering at Dakar's Ecole Superieur de Polytechnique (ESP) handles a small robot in the school's lab. The small robot, dubbed 'Dr Car', will be able to measure patients' blood pressure and temperature, according to ESP students. — Photos: AFP

DAKAR: Senegalese engineering students are throwing themselves at the West African state's growing coronavirus problem with inventions such as automatic sanitiser dispensers and medical robots.

Youngsters from a top engineering school in the capital Dakar have turned their technical skills toward easing pressure on the wards – and they are already in talks with hospitals over some of their innovations.