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IIT-Hyderabad model to make ECGs available in remote areas
A team of four IIT-H professors have proposed a two-tier-cardiology framework in which electrocardiogram (ECG) records can be transmitted even when available resources such as power and bandwidth are limited.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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India fixes health goals for next 15 years
India has set itself a challenging target to reduce the maternal mortality rate to 70 per 1,000 live births, and for neonatal and under-five to 12 and 25 per 1,000 births, respectively, under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved over the next 15 years.
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- South Asia
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Focus on Private Sector: India’s generic drug wars
India makes lifesaving medicine that Africa can afford — and U.S. pressure mustn’t cripple that, says Maha Rafi Atal.
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India’s microfinance institutions see gross loan growth of 69% in the previous quarter
Microfinance institutions saw a healthy 69% growth in their gross loan portfolio in the April June quarter compared to that in the same period of last year.
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Oxxy Moves to Launch World’s Largest Transparent, Affordable Hospital Chain
Spending on healthcare is a key component of a household's monthly budget. Any unforeseen illness that requires expert consultation or hospitalization or undergo a medical procedure burdens the pocket.
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Tough Challenges Await India’s Chandrashekhar Ghosh’s Bandhan in Its Commercial Bank Avtaar
On Sunday, Kolkata-based microfinance institution (MFI), Bandhan Financial Services formally converted itself into a full service commercial bank, thus becoming the latest private sector bank in the country. Bandhan is one of the two entities, which were given full-service banking licences by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in April, 2014, from a list of 25 aspirants that included big business houses. The other is IDFC.
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50th Microfinance Institution Launched in Cambodia
The Royal Microfinance institution launched its operations in Cambodia on Thursday, bringing the total number of micro-lenders in the kingdom to 50.
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- South Asia
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- lending, microfinance
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A Cheap Modular System Will Provide Better Shelter to Indians With Shoddy Metal Roofs
Much of the world will go to sleep tonight under a corrugated iron roof, a quite bumpy, ill-fitting way to cover a house. They'll get hot in summer, get no insulation in winter, and the thing will probably crack and corrode before too long.
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