Indrani Kashyap
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Associate Director Regional Comms-Asia/Africa/LatAm @Jhpiego Passionate storyteller, collaborator, seeker of open honest dialogue, comms for good. Tweets my own
A routine blood test transforming global health. BloodCounts!, an inaugural #TrinityChallenge winner, is using AI to unlock diagnostic power in the Complete Blood Count - performed 3.6 billion times yearly! Anemia to sepsis, early detection is possible. thetrinitychallenge.org/news-and-stori…
#WATCH | Delhi | On the increase in diseases due to air pollution, PGIMER Professor, Medicine, Dr Pulin Gupta says, "Because of the pollution, the OPD is flooded with patients with respiratory diseases like bronchitis, acute attacks of asthma. Patients are coming to the ENT OPD with sinusitis, runny nose, and bleeding nose. Patients with dermatitis have increased... More patients are coming with dryness, watery eyes, redness of eyes and diminution of vision. In the respiratory clinic, almost 22-25% extra number of patients of all the pollution-related diseases... People who have bronchial asthma, bronchitis and are old smokers, elderly people who had tuberculosis, they have increased chances of having a severe disease due to pollution..."
Floods in Pakistan have claimed hundreds of lives & left thousands of families without homes, food, or clean water. Jhpiego Pakistan is mobilizing 50,000 relief kits with food rations, safe water, hygiene supplies & first aid. But we cannot do it alone: jhpiego.org/emergency-fund…
