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A significant chunk of critical medical equipment in India is imported. The coronavirus outbreak could change that.
Editor's note: We don’t have a paywall for most of our stories on Coronavirus and its impact. Support us and subscribe here. Standing on the porch of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Mumbai suburbs, Diwakar Vaish, co-founder of Noida-based AgVa Healthcare, was trying to catch the attention of software industry executives. This is at the annual conference hosted by IT trade body Nasscom. Vaish’s stall was a side-show for startups to exhibit digital technologies in the healthcare sector. On a cool, breezy February day, the atmosphere was nothing as grim you would expect in a hospital emergency ward. Vaish's rig, comprising an iPad-like device on a short steel column mounted on wheels with dangling wires, was a cost-effective version of a ventilator used in critical care. There wasn’t much excitement about his solution, as few executives really understood the medical problem he aimed to solve. Today, a robotic engineer by training, Vaish is super busy. It is not easy to get him on the phone, as AgVa's ventilator is suddenly in demand from all parts of the country. The company is running …
The food and FMCG giant is set to be put into provisional liquidation. Abu Dhabi’s IHC and Emaar founder Mohamed Alabbar are now eyeing it.
A whole host of new deals at the Make it in the Emirates summit, Saudi Arabia’s widest deficit since 2018 and other updates from the week.
Decades of investment in health and social infrastructure went into getting the southern state’s infant mortality rate down to 5 deaths per 1,000 live births—far lower than the national average of 25.
