ICMR’s chief says India should chart its own path for rare disease treatment instead of relying on conventional Western approaches. The focus is on local innovation and smarter use of limited resources to create care strategies tailored to India’s realities. The shift signals a move toward indigenous solutions and more efficient, context-specific healthcare planning for patients with rare conditions.
Cardiac surgeon Sudhir Prem Srivastava, credited with 1,500 successful robotic surgeries, explains how his five-armed Mantra system was conceived, designed, and instrumented. In an ET Prime interaction, he also argues that robotic surgery tech must become cheaper and widely available—because breakthroughs matter only when hospitals can afford them.
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