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This Independence Day Give a Child Its Independence from Diseases

1950 Aug 15, 2016

Like every Independence day, this year also the whole nation is celebrating 'the day of freedom' with great enthusiasm and among all it is the children who are performing number of dances, arts and acts representing the various cultural faces of the country. But, somewhere a small child is not celebrating because he is suffering from a disease. He does not necessarily have to be from rural area; he can very well be from urban area as well and there can be many reasons for this such as:

Missing important health records
Errors from community health workers
Parents not understanding the need of vaccination
Data collection methods are very cumbersome and outdated. Too much manual effort is required.

Due to all these reasons it becomes difficult to keep the record of a child health when he is most sensitive and needs the most care.

So, at Yale University several entrepreneurs of Indian origin come with an idea of combining modern day's mobile technology with cloud computing and wearable technology and gave birth to a small necklace "Khushi Baby" capable of keeping the child's health record.

These necklaces are tiny but so high-tech that the entire medical history of a child can be recorded. The necklace has the ability to address the traditional problems (mentioned above) related to child's health accurately.

Thanks to technology, now health/workers and nurses can exactly know how far the child is in his immunization cycle. Not only this, but the officials can use it to:

"·Stock Management

"·Health worker Mobilization

"·Scheduling and Cancelling the Appointments

In India it is very common for a infant baby to wear a small necklace with black thread in order to have protection from diseases and this even makes the high-tech necklace even more of a cultural fit in India.

The necklace merely costs $25 and tablet $150 and a health worker with a single tablet can easily reach several hundred children.

There is a fund raising campaign going on their site kushibaby. You can donate $25 for the necklace or $150 for the tablet.

This Independence day you can gift a child its independence from diseases and can help in raising a healthier and happy India.

Tags: Independence Day Diseases Khushibaby Health Record