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Vinay Kumar lived in a remote village in western UP where the health facilities were not up to the mark. He was diagnosed with a chronic condition called juvenile diabetes at the age of 14 when his mother noticed that he was losing weight. He was required to take daily insulin injections to manage his illness. But there was no doctor or testing facility in his village. The only doctor available was two-and a-half hours away from his village. No one in his family had even heard about juvenile diabetes until that point. Similar to Vinay, millions of people suffer…

During the second wave of coronavirus infection in India earlier this year, oxygen therapy became crucial for severe patients with hypoxemia — a condition when oxygen levels in the blood are critically low. But we witnessed an acute shortage of medical oxygen in different parts of the country, from big cities to rural India. The crisis in bigger cities was more about overcoming supply chain limitations, while in smaller cities and villages, the crisis exposed a lack of medical oxygen infrastructure. According to experts, India produces enough oxygen, at a little over 7,000 tons a day. Most of the oxygen…

Sanitation workers across the nation are working on the frontlines during the pandemic. These workers, mainly the manual scavengers, are highly exposed to all kinds of domestic and hazardous waste. Manual scavenging, also called manhole cleaning, is one of the biggest problems in India and one of the worst professions in the world. The working and living conditions of these scavengers are horrific, with dire consequences on their health. There are about 1.8 lakh people in the country working as manual scavengers. Most of them die from inhaling poisonous gases accumulated inside manholes, oxygen depletion, heat stress or from falling…

The year 2020 proved to be a testing time globally, affecting the very existence of humanity as coronavirus attacked not just health but livelihood too. As lockdown of countries restricted movement, many healthcare providers had to take recourse to the digital medium to reach out to patients, dealing with not just COVID-19 but other general health issues as well. Amid the pandemic, the availability of ICU beds became a challenge globally. In India, the lack of ICU beds was a major concern even before the pandemic. Most of the beds are concentrated in the private sector, with substantial variation in…

Health care systems in India need a big boost as they are poorly managed. A lot of changes are required whether it is urban or rural, public or private health care. Lakhs of children and pregnant women die every year due to lack of accessibility to diagnose anaemia. To fight this issue, Biosense Technologies, a Mumbai-based medical technology organisation developed a portable gadget called ToucHb. ToucHb is a battery operated device that screens anaemia. The device measures the count without the prick of a needle. It is a hand-held needle-free battery operated haemoglobin estimation device that gives instant readings. With…

This year has been deemed as the most encouraging and pathbreaking for the technological innovations that came in to solve the problems of the common man. And one such innovation that has been brought forward by the Chandigarh based Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO), a constituent unit of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) is Divya Nayan. Divya Nayan is a personal reading machine for visually impaired or illiterate people to access printed or electronic textual information in the form of speech output. It is one of the technologies designed and developed by CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh and manufactured by…

The COVID-19 pandemic has phones, and thereby prevent the spread ensured a permanent place in of the disease. history for the year 2020, for To help prevent infections in hospiwhich, alas, there is no end in sight yet. Among other things, however, that tion-proof fabric. This fabric has been will always have a supporting role in any developed by Fabiosys Innovations, a feature on the year 2020, technology will start-up established at IIT Delhi. definitely perform a headline act. That’s because when the world went into the BAN ON CHINESE APPS, A BOON FOR lockdown, the locked up people had…