Dwivedi is chairman of the Health Innovation Round Table of India-Sweden Innovation Center
SRINAGAR, AUGUST 03: Principal Secretary Health & Medical Education (H&ME), Manoj Kumar Dwivedi chaired the Health Innovation Round Table session to showcase the India-Sweden Healthcare Innovation Center at the Civil Secretariat here today.
The interactive session was attended by Deputy Ambassador Embassy of Sweden in India, Gautam Bhattacharyya; Head Swedish Trade Commissioners Office (Bangalore) & Lead India Sweden Healthcare Innovation Center, Amit Hindua; Head of Govt Affairs Business Sweden, Anjali Bhola Bhargava, representatives of AstraZeneca India, CEOs and founders of start-ups that include Alveofit, Tricog, Genetico, Qure.ai and Dozee.
Mission Director National Health Mission J&K, Chaudhary M Yasin; Director (Coordination) New Medical Colleges, Nursing and Paramedical Colleges J&K, Dr Yashpal Sharma, Principal Government Medical College Srinagar/Jammu, Principal SKIMS GMC, Director Health Services Kashmir/Jammu, medical experts and other stakeholders participated in the round table session in person and through virtual location.
In his opening speech, Deputy Ambassador of the Embassy of Sweden in India, Gautam Bhattacharyya, gave a brief introduction and vision of the India-Sweden Healthcare Innovation Centre.
He informed the participants that the aim of the innovation center is to develop an ecosystem of open innovation that start-ups and healthcare delivery stakeholders can use to collaborate and address current and future challenges in the healthcare sector in India.
He added that the platform will enable the development and scaling up of solutions through frugal innovation for affordable and accessible healthcare in line with the objectives of the Government of India.
While delivering his presentation, Amit Hindua, Head Swedish Trade Commissioners Office (Bangalore) & Lead India Sweden Healthcare Innovation Center gave an overview of the innovation centre, apart from describing the innovation centre’s competence program for innovation promotion.
He also informed the meeting about the selected innovation from India and Sweden supported by this collaboration.
The session discussed in detail the health priorities of Jammu & Kashmir while discussing and debating possible synergies and focus areas in the health sector.
On the occasion, executives and representatives of start-up solutions showcased their products followed by extensive discussions on each innovation by medical experts from J&K.
During the meeting, Principal H&ME observed that discussions brought on the table with regard to innovations in the health sector can be fruitful in addressing healthcare challenges in J&K.
He said that the pilot method would be a better approach and these innovations in healthcare should be demonstrated before medical experts who will then work out and will proceed with further discussions and can be decided accordingly.
The India-Sweden Healthcare Innovation Center is a tripartite collaboration between the Office of the Swedish Trade Commissioner, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (AIIMS Delhi) and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur (AIIMS Jodhpur).
This collaboration is signed under the umbrella of the India Sweden Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in health and public health agreed between the countries in 2009.