Pluss Polymers wins innovation award at Indo-Global Healthcare Summit

Pluss Polymers, a manufacturer of specialised polymers and phase-change materials (PCMs), has bagged the ‘Best innovation & research in health care’ award at the Indo-Global HealthCare Summit & Expo 2014 for its MiraCradle, a low cost device that induces therapeutic hypothermia among newborns suffering from birth asphyxia using the advanced phase change material technology.
 
“MiraCradle will help save lives of approximately 1,50,000 newborns in India and 700,000 across the world, which is currently dependent on the expensive servo control instruments that most hospitals in the world cannot afford,” said the company in a press release.
 
Samit Jain, Managing Director, Pluss Polymers, commented, “We take pride in informing that the MiraCradle device is being successfully used at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, for the past one year. Over 50 babies have been treated using MiraCradle over the last one year at CMC Vellore. We thank CMC for the support in the continuous trials.”
 
Ankit Jhanwar, Project Head- Miracradle, added, “MiraCradle is the affordable treatment for neonatal asphyxia and will help India and the world get one step closer to the MDG 2015 goal (which is the eight Millennium Development Goals - and ranges from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education).”
 
The Indo-Global Health Summit & Expo is a joint effort of the Indian Medical Association, the Government of Andhra Pradesh, the Federation of AP Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and the Indus Foundation.