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
