Indian firm awarded for providing antenatal care services

A Mumbai-based company has won a the Mastercard's grand prize of 25,000 dollars for providing door-to-door antenatal care services to pregnant women living in villages in India with an aim to reduce the high maternity deaths.
CareNx Innovations's team won the prize for their pregnancy care project in India at the Project Inspire 2016 Grand Finals held by Responsible Business Forum on Sustainable Development held here this week.
Through CareNx's CareMother Mobile Pregnancy Care, women healthcare workers will be equipped with a mobile pregnancy kit that enables door-to-door antenatal care services to pregnant women living in rural villages.
The project aims to reduce the high maternity deaths caused by pregnancy complications through early detection and increased health checks.

CareNx Co-founder and Executive Director, Aditya Kulkarni, said, "We are very grateful towards the Singapore Committee for UN Women and Mastercard for giving us an opportunity to present ourselves and our work."
"This competition was a check to realize that we are working in the right way or an important problem. With this grand prize, we wish to scale our mobile pregnancy care solution to reach out to at least 2000 pregnancies and 20 women health workers in next 1 year.

"We have a dream to reach out to 2 million pregnancies in next 3 years and this prize would get us started," added Kulkarni.

The annual competition, now in its sixth year, received close to 270 proposals from 109 countries working on women's and girls' safety and security.
Project Inspire is co-organised and co-founded by Singapore Committee for UN Women and Mastercard.