Healthcare

Dr Rajani Jagtap from Maharashtra lost her husband, Dr Shridhar, to COVID last year. She started a support group to help hundred others like her to cope with grief.

A traditional winter drink in states like Gujarat and Rajasthan, Bajra Raab is gluten-free, immensely nutrition and a great way of controlling high blood pressure as well as diabetes.

Mosquirix, the malaria vaccine by GlaxoSmithKline has already been administered to over 8,00,000 children in 2.3 million doses.

Virohan, the Gurugram-based healthcare edtech startup founded by Nalin Saluja, Kunaal Dudeja and Archit Jayaswal, trains and certifies allied healthcare professionals (AHPs), who form the vital backbone of the healthcare sector in India and abroad.

A student at IIT Bombay, Saiprasad Proyarekar has innovated a skin spray gun that treats open skin wounds in less than half the time of regular surgeries. This low-cost innovation can be a gamechanger in treating acid attacks and accident injuries.

Regular health check ups over the years helped Meher Roy identify a small red flag that led to the early diagnosis of blood cancer and may have saved his life. He shares how simple checks can help us understand our body better and keep a check on our health.

Nikhiya Samsher (18), a graduate of Greenwood High International School in Bengaluru has innovated an low-cost, early risk detection system for oral cancer.

From diabetic and potential elderly cataract patients to premature infants, 3nethra developed by Bengaluru-based Kuppuswamy Chandrasekhar's Forus Health, diagnoses eye diseases within five minutes without dilating the pupils.

Swati Jagdish, is Coimbatore's lactation counsellor-turned-sex educator, who addresses a myriad of unspoken topics including breastfeeding, menstruation, consent, sexual abuse at home on her page — Maya's Amma.

MiraCradle, a device to treat asphyxia, has been developed by Pluss Advanced Technologies, a Gurugram-based company and Dr Niranjan Thomas. It is a low-cost innovation to treat newborns with this condition and a first-of-its-kind in India.