C O V E R S T O R Y
Improving newborn & maternal care
Nemocare Wellness
An affordable smart monitoring diagnostic tool for tracking newborns ' vital health parameters
About 6 million premature babies born every year in India are susceptible to Apnea and Hypothermia , which are the two most common manifestations of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in neonates . Hyderabad based Nemocare Wellness aims to end all such preventable neonatal and maternal deaths by using unobtrusive wireless wearable sensors and networks , analytical algorithms and big data as tools to provide continuous , high resolution monitoring and preventive care .
The journey of Nemocare started in February 2017 , when the founders Manoj Sanker and Pratyusha Pareddy post their stint at the hospitals of
Company : NemoCare Wellness Location : Hyderabad Year of Inception : 2017 Founders : Manoj Sanker , Pratyusha Pareddy
Investors : BIRAC , Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Latest Funding : Undisclosed amount from Google for Startups & MassChallenge .
South India , started thinking about ways to solve these cases . The founders believe that the first step to curbing infant mortality rate is to foster a positive behavioral change is the mindset of healthcare workers – towards monitoring and care . In July 2017 , they incorporated the company and gradually worked towards developing the product . Eventually the company came out with the first version of its prototype and did pilot testing , visual prototype testing .
The company ’ s flagship product , Nemocare Raksha is a wearable on the
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BioVoiceNews | November / December 2023