This woman entrepreneur’s medtech startup protects newborns with a ‘Raksha’ device
Pratyusha Pareddy is the Co-founder of medtech startup Nemocare Wellness, whose product ‘Raksha’ is an easy-to-use wearable device, which wraps around the foot of the newborn, and monitors six main vital signs.
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Pratyusha Pareddy, Co-founder of Nemocare Wellness, belongs to a family of doctors. She decided to pursue engineering and product design from the
National Institute of Design. However, she gravitated towards addressing unmet needs in the healthcare sector.
“At NID, I learnt how marrying top-notch tech with responsible and simple design thinking principles can create wonders. The projects I had taken up at NID like improving rural maternal healthcare helped us travel extensively in rural Gujarat to understand how healthcare works at the grassroots level, as well as how simple design intervention can drastically improve the lives of people at the bottom o
Kerala s first human milk bank to be opened on Feb 5
Set up with the support of the Rotary Club of Cochin Global, the milk bank will ensure breast milk for newborn babies who are not being breastfed by their own mothers who may be sick, deceased, or due to insufficient production of breast milk.
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Kerala s first Human Milk Bank (HMB), a state-of-art facility, will be opened at the Ernakulam general hospital here on Friday by
Health Minister KK Shailaja.
Set up with the support of the
Rotary Club of Cochin Global, the milk bank is to ensure breast milk for newborn babies who are not being breastfed by their own mothers who may be sick, deceased, or due to insufficient production of breast milk.
Kerala s first Human Milk Bank to be opened on February 5
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Last Updated: Feb 02, 2021, 02:01 PM IST
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Set up with the support of the Rotary Club of Cochin Global, the milk bank is to ensure breast milk for newborn babies, who are not being breastfed by their own mothers who may be sick, deceased or due to insufficient production of breast milk, in the hospital.
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KOCHI: Kerala s first Human Milk Bank (HMB), a state-of-art facility will be opened at the Ernakulam general hospital here on Friday by Health Minister K K Shailaja.
Set up with the support of the Rotary Club of Cochin Global, the milk bank is to ensure breast milk for newborn babies, who are not being breastfed by their own mothers who may be sick, deceased or due to insufficient production of breast milk, in the hospital.
Health Minister KK Shailaja To Open Kerala s First Human Milk Bank On February 5
The milk bank will be set up to ensure breast milk for newborn babies whose mothers cannot breastfeed them Photograph By Jitender Gupta Outlook Web Bureau 2021-02-02T17:12:57+05:30 Health Minister KK Shailaja To Open Kerala s First Human Milk Bank On February 5 outlookindia.com 2021-02-02T19:30:54+05:30
A state-of-art facility, Kerala s first-ever Human Milk Bank (HMB) will be opened on February 5. The bank shall open at the Ernakulam general hospital in the city by Health Minister KK Shailaja.
The milk bank has been set up at the hospital with the help of the Rotary Club of Cochin Global, which will ensure breast milk for those newborn babies who cannot be breastfed by their own mothers due to a variety of reasons.