India faces a huge burden of non-communicable diseases. Challenges such as limited access, lack of affordability, limited infrastructure, lack of skilled human resource and lack of quality healthcare makes it more difficult to deal with the disease burden in conventional ways. These challenges call for affordable, accessible yet high-quality and universal solutions especially in early stages of healthcare cycles – like screening.
While Anjani Mashelkar Foundation has been recognizing and nurturing such solutions, there still are certain gaps in terms of deploying these solutions like