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InnAccel Technologies, in collaboration with C-CAMP, implemented Project Saans in Assam, a state-wide deployment funded by USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Through this project, 300+ Saans devices were deployed across 30+ hospitals in Assam, covering all NICUs in the State Government health system. Data collected from the treatment of over 3000 neonates showed major quarter to quarter improvement in rate of successful discharge, and reduction in referrals and mortality. Furthermore, a pre-post analysis has shown a significant reduction in hospital mortality, demonstrating Saans’ impact potential in public health deployments. This project was featured as an Infosys Foundation Story (Link: https://www.infosys.com/infosys-stories/nurturing-our-people/breathing-life-neonatal-healthcare.html).

Current state: Kothagudem is a small district on the shared border of Telangana and Chhattisgarh states of India. As these tribal habitations are located in remote, hilly areas with poor road networks, the majority of deliveries occur in the habitations only, without any pregnancy monitoring

Intervention: InnAccel collaborated with the Indigenous Development Organization (I-DO), an NGO working with the tribal community, to install Fetal Lite in Mobile Medical Units (MMU), to provide healthcare services free of cost to the last mile. MMU covers a tribal population of 2300 members in 18 villages. One physician, along with a midwife was also allotted to the MMU to support the initiative.

Impact: Fetal lite has been used for 300+ scans so far, primarily done by midwives, detecting 12 cases of fetal distress, which prompted the patients to be shifted to Hyderabad, potentially saving the lives of babies. So far, with the use of Fetal Lite, 150 successful deliveries have happened without a single casualty

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, there were widespread efforts to build low-cost ventilators to ease India’s shortage of respiratory support devices. InnAccel, however, felt that non-invasive ventilation would be greater need. Leveraging our Saans platform, and with critical development funding from ACT, we developed Saans Pro, an HFNC + CPAP system for adults, as well as the Saans CPAP Helmet. Over the course of 18 months, over 600 Saans Pro devices and 6000 Helmets were deployed to 60+ Government hospitals and Covid centers across India, with the majority of these being generously donated by ACT and the American India Foundation (AIF). These devices treated thousands of patients, and we are proud to have been able to contribute to India’s pandemic response.