New Way to Treat Patients

It is scheduled to release the application with the help of which it is possible to screen children that have poor health condition.

At present India suffers from the third epidemic of RoP after US in the 1950s and 70s. About 27 million babies born with weight less than 2kg that leads to the horrible condition. The RoP influences negatively on the retinas of babies that can be the reason of permanent blindness. In order to prevent this, one should screen during the first 3-4 weeks of childbirth.

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The Bangalore-headquartered institute decided to guide pilot projects in six regions such as Bangalore Urban, Rural, Mandya, Tumkur, Bidar, Gulbarga. As a result the doctors screened 1,600 infants and cured about 1,600 infants inclined to RoP.

Narayana Nethralaya also applied for i2i TeleSolutions in order it will be possible to have efficient software to operate the application on i-Phone.

During the live diagnose, a RedCam helps the doctor. The camera features a 130 degree field of view. The work of camera is explained in the following: it makes snap-shots of child’s retinal condition. The image it transmitted via the Internet in an encrypted format.

The Karnataka government is working on getting two RedCams that are priced Rs1 crore and laser equipment of Rs20 lakh in order National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) could conduct the program.

Category: Health