Healthcare

Ajinkya Dhariya from Pune says Infosys Foundation’s Aarohan Social Innovation Awards gave him the means to scale his innovation Pad Care Labs, a venture that sustainably disposes off sanitary pads and converts them into packaging material.

Priyadarshi Mahapatra quit his job at Google to launch CureBay, a healthcare startup that delivers affordable care right at the doorsteps of people living in Odisha’s most backward regions. He shares why he started this endeavour.

Uttarakhand resident and former transplant patient Abhinav Pangtey shares his ordeal with organ donation due to the prevailing misconceptions around it, and how he’s aiming to spread awareness at the World Transplant Games this year.

Mumbai resident Jayashree Ratan set out to create crocheted prostheses for breast cancer survivors. Her organisation Saaisha India has distributed 5,700 such prostheses for free so far.

Prabhdeep Singh, CEO and co-founder of StanPlus, has established a seamless medical service network across five cities in India, and they’re working on further reducing the response time to eight minutes.

Microbiologist and researcher Dr Gagandeep Kang addresses the fear of a perceived threat to India due to rising COVID cases in China. FAQs answered!

Ram Malampati, a software professional from Bengaluru was diagnosed with fatty liver and high cholesterol levels at an annual office health checkup. Here’s how he reduced his weight from 102 kg to 78 kg in four months.

Researcher Geetha Manjunath quit her job to launch Thermalytix, an AI solution that offers a radiation free and non invasive way to detect breast cancer in women.

Denied jobs and education because he came from the Ezhava caste community, Dr Padmanabhan Palpu fought many roadblocks to play a pivotal role in containing the plague in Bangalore, while dedicating himself to dismantle caste-based discrimination.

Delhi resident Akash Gusain shares how a trip to his hometown and a fatty liver diagnosis that came out of the blue pushed him to turn things around and lose weight.