Making Excellence a Habit: The Secret to Building a World-Class Healthcare System in India
By Dr. V Mohan,
Penguin Random House
One of India’s leading diabetologists, Dr V Mohan writes in his memoir about the fundamentals that according to him, make a person achieve meaningful success and conquer fear about failure. He lists hard work, passion for what you do, and focus as a winner s secrets, among other qualities. The book is a handy guide to success based on his personal anecdotes about perseverance, determination, resilience and dedication.As someone who has contributed to research, education and charity, his emphasis on empathy and spirituality arepart of the narrative. From planning diabetes exposandconducting countrywide studies ata time when people were largely ignorant about the lifestyle disease, DrMohan shares his unusual ideas and experiences that made the world take notice.The book, he says, is aimed at igniting aspark in students, young and future doctors, scientis
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The Ventilator Project book review: A riveting story of the invention of world-class ventilator during Covid lockdown
On March 16, 2020, when the country recorded 60 cases of Covid-19, Prime Minister Modi announced a Covid-19 Solution Challenge. Professor Bandyopadhyay of IIT-Kanpur, headed by its dynamic Director, Abhay Karandikar, responded by sending out the challenge to all IIT-Kanpur-incubated start-ups
Indian science and technology institutions are commonly perceived as ivory towers being pampered at taxpayersâ cost. But the Covid-19 pandemic proved critics wrong, with the scientific community rising to the occasion and, almost overnight, developing indigenous diagnostic kits, PPEs, nano-fibre-based masks, naso-pharyngeal swabs, sanitizers and ventilators of a global standard, and having these manufactured, largely, by start-ups or small companies, without compromising on the quality.
The Ventilator Project: IIT Kanpur Group s 90-Day Saga Shows The Way For Aatmanirbhar Startup Success
by Karan Kamble - Apr 3, 2021 12:30 AM
Nocca Robotics founders Nikhil Kurele (left) and Harshit Rathore (right) with their ventilator V310
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The Ventilator Project tells the story of how a young startup, with the help of a sharp and seasoned task force, were able to manufacture a world-class ventilator in a mere 90 days during the pandemic.
Swarajya spoke to four key members of the task force to learn more about how they pulled off this astonishing feat and what lessons they have to offer for business and entrepreneurship in post-Covid, aatmanirbhar India.
The Nocca Robotics ICU ventilator
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In their book, Srikant Sastri and Amitabha Bandyopadhyay describe how the Nocca Robotics team created the lifesaving ventilator in just 90 days
It was late March 2020, and WHO had just declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. India needed ventilators reliable and affordable. In the midst of the lockdown, a group of 20 people came together over Zoom and WhatsApp young techies and seasoned medical professionals, entrepreneurs and academics and pulled off the unimaginable: in just 90 days, the Nocca Robotics team (a start-up incubated at IIT Kanpur) created a world-class, cost-effective, life-saving ventilator, complete with clinical validation.
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