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New tech to aid screening and monitoring of lung diseases

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Mar 8, 2022, 10:21 pm IST
in Bharat, Delhi, Sci & Tech
British Deputy High Commissioner to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Dr. Andrew Fleming, checking out the new technology (Photo Credit: India Science Wire)

British Deputy High Commissioner to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Dr. Andrew Fleming, checking out the new technology (Photo Credit: India Science Wire)

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Salcit Technologies, a start-up supported by C-CAMP, had first developed the platform named Swaasa for general lung assessment.

 

New Delhi, March 08: India has a high burden of Tuberculosis, recording close to 2.64 million cases and 75,000 plus deaths in 2019. A considerable percentage of these cases come from underdeveloped, remote areas without proper access to healthcare services. It is a huge challenge to triage, screen, and monitor it promptly and at scale, with minimal resources.

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A project enabled by the Bengaluru-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) and supported by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has led to the development of a technology that promises to offer a rapid, affordable, easy-to-use, and point of care solution.

It is an AI-based mobile app. A person just has to cough into a mobile phone and receive an assessment of whether he or she is suffering from any lung disease through the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). A doctor could then go through the report and determine the next course of action.

Salcit Technologies, a start-up supported by C-CAMP, had first developed the platform named Swaasa for general lung assessment. Subsequently, under a consortium project supported by the FCDO, C-CAMP brought together technical, clinical & health systems expertise through Andhra Medical College (AMC) and PATH, an international, non-profit health organization based in Seattle, to extend and develop this platform to triage for COVID-19, besides TB. While TB has been a perpetual problem, there seems to be no early end to COVID-19, and lung disease.

According to a release from C-CAMP, the development, validation & pilot deployment of this technology has been extremely promising, with triaging results showing more than 95% sensitivity under laboratory conditions for COVID-19. There will be further testing at the field level. C-CAMP will continue to actively catalyse the commercialisation efforts through its national and international ecosystem, which includes diverse stakeholders from industry, government, clinical, and the investor community, it added.

The technology was showcased to the British Deputy High Commissioner to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Dr Andrew Fleming, at the Govt. Chest & TB Hospital, Andhra Medical College, Vishakhapatnam in the presence of Dr Niranjan Joshi, Associate Programme Lead, C-CAMP, Dr P.V Sudhakar, Former Principal, Andhra Medical College, Dr K.V.V. Vijaya Kumar, Superintendent, Chest & TB Hospital, and Mr Manmohan Jain, CSO, Salcit Technologies.

Dr Andrew Fleming said, “After the success of the UK-India Astra-Zeneca vaccine collaboration, our bilateral health tech partnership goes from strength to strength with this AI solution. Through this, there can be huge savings in terms of cost and time to the health system.” He also checked the functionality of the technology by taking the test on the spot, through the Swaasa app, well within a minute.

Dr Vijaya Kumar said, “I thank C-CAMP for bringing all of us on the common platform. Tools such as this are very helpful for us. This will reduce the immense burden on the hospital. We hope that this technology can be extended even further for other lung ailments like Asthma, Bronchitis, and COPD.”

Dr Taslimarif Saiyed, C-CAMP CEO & Director, said, “For more than 10 years, C-CAMP has played a major role in India in enabling deep-tech innovations from a very early stage with entrepreneurship as a vehicle. We have so far supported more than 300 innovations. This AI platform is one such example of C-CAMP’s efforts. Once developed & proven, these innovations will not only create impact for the society in India but also be scaled in other low & middle-income geographies across the world.” (India Science Wire)

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