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News18
04-08-2025
- Health
- News18
Centre of Excellence for womens pelvic health opens at Mumbais Cama Hospital
Mumbai, Aug 4 (PTI) The government-run Cama & Albless Hospital on Monday opened its centre of excellence for women's pelvic health that aims to provide treatment for urogynaecological disorders. Established through a public-private partnership, the centre has six clinic rooms and a state-of-the-art diagnostics centre with advanced equipment, making it one of the most advanced urogynaecology centres in India, an official statement said. The centre aims to address pelvic floor disorders, including pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence, faecal incontinence, fistulas, dysfunctional voiding, perineal trauma, urinary tract infections, bladder pain syndrome among others, which affect nearly one in four Indian women but often go undiagnosed and untreated. It will also serve as a platform for world-class training and research in urogynecology. It is a collaboration between the Maharashtra government, the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) at the Department of Urogynaecology, and health technology provider CitiusTech. 'The department has top-tier diagnostics and equipment unavailable in most hospitals nationwide. This centre is not just about best-in-class treatment; the dream is to develop a hub for cutting-edge research and advanced training. Our goal is to develop a new generation of urogynaecologists, trained to the highest standards, who will lead change across India," said Dr Aparna Hegde, associate professor, Department of Urogynecology. PTI SM ARU view comments First Published: August 04, 2025, 13:45 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Time Magazine
08-05-2025
- Health
- Time Magazine
Aparna Hegde and Aparna Taneja
Dr. Aparna Hegde founded India-based non-profit ARMMAN in 2008 after working in an overcrowded Mumbai maternity clinic where she saw new mothers and their babies die of avoidable complications. Her solution is a 'tech plus touch model' which provides targeted preventive care information to enrolled women through free voice calls. But as they scaled to millions of participants, 40% of women stopped engaging midway. ' Studies have shown that if women get information at the right time, there is improvement in health outcomes for themselves and their children,' says Hegde. ARMMAN trained health workers to reach out to women that dropped out of the program, but needed help identifying which high risk women to prioritize, so they approached Google for an AI solution. A team led by Google researcher Aparna Taneja trained an AI model on calls from ARMMAN's databases to learn which women are likely to drop out and would benefit most from personal intervention. The model, tested with a pilot group of around 100,000 women, improved retention rate by about 30%, and increased how likely expectant mothers were to be proactive about following health guidelines—which is correlated with better health outcomes. 'It's the most rewarding experience to do such cutting edge AI research with meaningful social impact,' Taneja says. Plus, she says, 'the model is applicable to similar problems, both in the context of health and other domains, because the ideology is to solve resource allocation under budget constraints.'
