New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- India accounts for a significant percentage of global neonatal death burden with 20 mortalities reported every 1,000 live births1. The challenge is particularly glaring in rural India where limited access to Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs), shortage of trained personnel, and lack of specialised equipment is burdening. For years, families have relied on hospitals in the metro cities for treatment of their newborns, losing crucial first hours to ambulance transfers. However, with advanced neonatal care technologies steadily making way into smaller cities, lifesaving MedTech is reaching closer to where needed the most.

Case in point, the story of survival of a premature baby weighing 500 grams, born in a hospital...