Women's health is still usually misunderstood as just reproductive health. While femtech startups are trying to change that, the industry is underfunded and witnessing a slow growth
Veena Moktali, co-founder, Periwinkle Technologies
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In 2019, 500 women were tested in a Pune-based OPD for cervical cancer and 20 of them showed pre-cancerous lesions. A previous Pap smear test had missed these in 14 women.
They were tested with Smart Scope, a hand-held cervical health screening system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to classify abnormalities in a body cavity to enable a trained health worker to provide results in a single visit. The Smart Scope, says Veena Moktali, can provide results in under seven minutes.
(This story appears in the 30 July, 2021 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)