Main Image: The Rediroom can turn any hospital bed into a secure isolation unit (Gama Healthcare). Listen: Ken & Nicky speak with Anna and Justin Ballantyne, designers of the Rediroom.
Only weeks after Queensland bio-tech company Ellume was awarded a $300 million contract to supply at home COVID tests in the United States, another local invention has racked up $10 million in sales within the space of a year.
The Rediroom is a pop-up isolation station that was designed and developed by Sunshine Coast Clinical Nurse Anna Ballantyne and her husband Justin, alongside business partner James Burkwood and Gama Healthcare. The invention is easily transported, meaning that hospitals can treat infectious patients anywhere, rather than in only a traditional isolation ward.