IIT Bhubaneswar prepares alcohol based hand sanitizer as per WHO parameters

The School of Basic Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar has prepared alcohol based hand sanitizer, which has been prescribed by World Health Organization (WHO) for preventing the spread of coronavirus and its spores from small surfaces and hand for use by the campus community. Dr. A, Biswas and his research group have prepared hand sanitizer .

The ‘in-house prepared hand sanitizer’ contains an oxidizing agent which is usually absent in most of the commercialized hand sanitizers. IIT Bhubaneswar has also started distributing the same sanitizer to the medical unit, security unit(s) as well as among the staff and faculty members residing within the campus. The alcohol based hand sanitizer prepared at IIT Bhubaneswar contain at least 70% alcohol can efficiently disinfect microorganisms and viruses on hands within 30 seconds or so after application.