IIT Kharagpur Team Devises One-Rupee Test to Measure Hemoglobin Levels
The Wire (September 24, 2019)
According to a study published earlier this year, 4.1% of the Indian population--about 50 million people--was in a state of "hidden poverty due to medical expenses" in 2011.
In a country where affordability deters access to healthcare, there is an urgent need to develop high-quality, easy-to-use, scalable and affordable technologies that solve problems in screening, diagnostics and therapy. These solutions will have to be devised by people at the primary healthcare level because secondary and tertiary care are more expensive.
Researchers at IIT Kharagpur recently pitched one such solution. (Read More)