On January 26 2014, PD Hinduja Hospital & Medical Research Centre hosted ‘Redx: MIT India Health Tech 2014, Rethinking Diagnostics’ workshop in association with IIT Bombay, WeSchool (Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US.
This event aimed to create a platform for innovation and opportunity for the youth of India. The event is the beginning of a week-long workshop being held at IIT Bombay and at WeSchool with MIT delegates.
During this event, doctors from PD Hinduja Hospital presented their innovative ideas and expectations to the young and entrepreneurial students from IIT-B, WeSchool and MIT.
Inspired by the doctors wish list, PD Hinduja Hospital’s Executive Trustee Vinoo Hinduja announced an ‘Innovation Lab’ where the youth of India would come together to develop economical medical and diagnostics equipment/facilities for the people of India. This innovation lab will be ‘By India; Of India and For India’ and Indian institutes like IIT-B and WeSchool will join hands with PD Hinduja Hospital to create this platform with MIT being facilitator in this innovation. PD Hinduja Hospital looks forward to many more collaborations with domestic and international institutes for its innovation lab.
Announcing the new innovation lab, Hinduja said, “The deficiencies in healthcare industry are a fertile land waiting for the youth of India to plant it seeds of innovation to reap the fruits of success. I urge you all to embrace transformation so as to be able to address some of patient care issues.”
Joy Chakraborty, COO, PD Hinduja Hospital said, “India needs innovation to make healthcare accessible and affordable. Our endeavour is a small step towards the need of the health sector. One of our principles ‘Partnership for Growth’ is followed in different ways in our practices and this Innovation Lab will stand for a partnership with credible and similar minded partners across the globe to achieve our objectives.”
Dr Sanjay Agarwala, Director – Professional Services said, “This is a forum where all participating students from IIT, MIT etc could interact with doctors of Hinduja Hospital so that they could innovate and find solutions through ideation, leading to a product that would help the same doctors across the world in diagnosis.”
The PD Hinduja Hospital has always been in the forefront of technology. Dr Camilla Rodrigues, Consultant Microbiologist and Chairperson Infection Control Committee said, “One of the thrust areas has been in tuberculosis diagnostics. The hospital is well known as a pioneer in this field. The government of India has recently recognised our lab for second line testing of drug resistant tuberculosis. This innovation lab initiative that will also focus on TB is certainly a step in the right direction to the laudable goal of a TB free India.”