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covid-19 crisis in india

IIT alumni Council to home deliver first

Home-Grown Fourth Generation Vaccine

Mobile vaccination labs to facilitate concurrent clinical trials,

vaccine upgrades, vaccination, pre and post vaccination feedback

Our Bureau

New Delhi
IT Alumni Council has
decided to help re-invent
Ithe clinical trial and vacci-
nation process. This will help
reduce timelines inherent in
the sequential process of virus
characterization, vaccine de-
velopment, clinical trials, mass
vaccination and post vaccina-
tion feedback. Digital wear-
ables and a secure community
portal will create instantaneous
feedback and facilitate real
time research. The vaccine
will be first made available to
IIT Alumni and their families.
Once process is perfected, it
will be made available globally,
said Ravi Sharma, President of the Council was compelling
the IIT Alumni Council. enough for me stay back for
On 1st May, 2020 the Ma- weeks in what was meant to
harashtra Chief Minister had be a day trip. I got full support
flagged off India’s first covid-19 from our investors. All I had
testing bus. This IIT Alumni was my entrepreneurial zeal,
Council initiative was powered leadership qualities and quick
by Krsnaa Diagnostics, a diag- decision making alongside by
nostics company which was the background in home science.
market leader in tele-radiolo- I saw first-hand how the IIT
gy. Krsnaa used remote doc- Alumni Council team members
tors and AI to facilitate speed worked 24/7 to turn every sin-
diagnosis and patient isolation gle healthcare paradigm on its
in high-risk clusters of Mum- head in internet time to visible
bai and Pune. The volunteering ness. The IIT Alumnus man- becoming the first listed uni- and tangible results. Based on
work done by their Managing aged Indus Somerset Fund, a corn in the covid space. my own experience, I can now
Director at the NSCI Dome MegaFund affiliate provided In April 2020, I was one of understand why IITians can
and the covid test bus laid the venture capital funding. The the first volunteers to reach the create unicorns like no one else
foundation for Krsnaa to enter company recently filed for an Poddar Hospital facility. in the world can, adds Ms Palla-
and lead the Covid testing busi- IPO and could be on track to The vision outlined by Continued on next page... >>

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