Technologies
Title: | Optimized Mobile Surgical Unit for Cataract Surgeries in Remote Areas |
Area: | Cutting Edge Technology |
Focus Area: | Healthcare |
Status: | Deployed, delivering rural surgeries |
Company Transferred: | Yes |
Developing Agency: | IIT Madras, Pravartak (Tamil Nadu) |
Technology Readiness Label: | 9 |
Email: | info@pravartak.org.in |
Funding Agency: | DST - NM-ICPS |
Lead Developer: | Pravartak Technologies Foundation, IIT Madras |
Source Title: | NM-ICPS, Department of Science and Technology |
Brief Description
Description : | A first-of-its-kind technology in the country that targets the huge unaddressed need for cataract surgeries in rural India. MESU is conceptualized to emulate the typical facilities in a land-based surgery theatre; twin vehicle design (two smaller vehicles link at site). 22,000+ surgeries in 100+ rural locations. |