medical innovation

Be it in a hospital or a college canteen, ideas for path-breaking innovations can strike you anywhere, at anytime. The win is in recognizing and following them through, as these individuals did to become changemakers of our society. You can, too! Last week to apply for @Villgro’s iPitch for Rs 8 Crore investment & more: www.villgro.org/ipitch

In a country where 37 per cent of patients on mechanical ventilators get pneumonia and where 50 per cent of babies are born away from well-equipped hospitals, these medical marvels are proven life-savers.

It turns out that you can diagnose diabetes in just a puff of air. Like a breathalyser, the device takes in your breath and analyses for a particular marker.

It can treat liquid medical waste, log data and automatically flush water – at one-tenth cost in hospitals

Bangalore based scientists have achieved a breakthrough innovation that is saving the lives of newborn babies with sepsis. Their experiment has brought down deaths by 82%.