Bangalore :

CAMTech India, a public-private health partnership funded by the United States Agency for International Development, will hold its first medical technology ‘Jugaad-a-thon’ in Bangalore from July 18 to 20.

The Jugaad-a-thon will tap into the know-how of local experts in engineering, public health and business to develop new tools to improve healthcare, Elizabeth Bailey, director, Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech) at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Global Health, said in a release.

CAMTech India is working towards finding innovative ways to provide healthcare to women and children in India, Bailey said.

The Jugaad-a-thon (derived from the Hindi word jugaad meaning an innovative fix or work-around) will be a 48-hour event where 250 clinicians, engineers and entrepreneurs collaborate on new solutions for unsolved clinical problems.

Cross-disciplinary teams will work on developing functional prototypes and commercialising their innovations. At the end of the event, the teams will be awarded a variety of prizes to help take their innovations forward. The event is being organised in partnership with Glocal Healthcare and will be hosted at GE’s John F Welch Technology Centre in Bangalore. Applications can be sent by July 7. For more information visit: www.jugaadathon.com.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bangalore / by Express News Service / June 25th, 2014