more-inTata Trusts said on Tuesday that they have opened a healthcare impact lab in IIT Delhi, with a U.S.-based international non-governmental organisation, PATH, to focus on building affordable medical devices for use by grass-roots health workers. “We will bring our expertise on research and they will bring in global expertise in the healthcare domain,” Manoj Kumar, head of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Tata Trusts, said in a telephone interview from New Delhi. “India’s public healthcare is struggling in most areas. The lab will incubate start-ups with science and technology-based ideas. It will give us a little more strength in terms of expertise so that we can make our incubators much more impactful.”Tata Trusts, headed by Rata Tata, consists of Ratan Tata and Allied Trusts and Dorabji Tata Trust and Allied Trusts.

Source: The Hindu January 16, 2018 16:08 UTC