Amoul's i7/i9 is an automated external defibrillator built to get a shock into a cardiac arrest patient before it's too late. Using biphasic energy that climbs up to 360J, and it reads the heart's rhythm while charging instead of after, saving the seconds that matter most. The i9 adds a 7-inch HD display that walks an untrained bystander through defibrillation and CPR step by step. IP65-rated, this thing can sit in a gym or an office lobby just as easily as a hospital crash cart. What it's really built for is the gap before the ambulance shows up, the minutes when survival odds are dropping fast.
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Fortis agreement with SLJ society
India is building hospitals but who is going to run them? (our Instagram Channel)
Top 5 Startups in HealthTech
New Frontiers: Rising HealthTech AI Pioneers
Corporate Updates: Indian Healthcare
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1/ Fortis is Investing Rs 567 Crore in a Hospital it won’t Own. Here’s Why…
Why would Fortis lend ₹567 crore to a hospital it doesn’t own?
Fortis Healthcare’s wholly owned subsidiary, Fortis Hospital has signed a 29 year Healthcare Services Agreement with Seth Sunder Lal Jain Charitable Eye Hospital Society for a planned 400+ bed super-speciality hospital in Ashok Vihar, Delhi.
The hospital will be owned, developed and managed by SLJ Society.
Fortis, on the other hand will have long term exclusive rights to provide specified healthcare services including clinical manpower and specialised equipment such as Cath Labs, LINAC, PET-CT and surgical robots.
2/ India is Building Hospitals but Who is Going to Run Them?
India will face a shortage of doctors to run its expanding healthcare infrastructure.
A new WHO report says nearly 1 in 4 doctors globally is over 55 and could retire within the next decade.
In high-income countries, it's almost 1 in 3 and globally, WHO projects a shortage of 11.1 million health workers by 2030.
3/ Top 5 Starups in HealthTech
MyRx: MyRx turns handwritten prescriptions into a 30-second digital process, bundling e-prescribing, an integrated EMR, and a 4 lakh+ medicine database. Doctors can pull up patient history and share prescriptions via WhatsApp or SMS from anywhere.
Inochi Care: Inochi Care built InoHeal to treat wounds that won't close on their own, diabetic foot ulcers, pressure sores, infected post-surgical cuts. Instead of one device for drainage and another for infection control, InoHeal does both at once and eases the inflammation.
iKure: iKure is closing India's rural healthcare gap, where 65% of the population lives outside cities but 75% of doctors don't. Its community health activists pair with a digital platform and AI diagnostic tools to bring primary care directly into villages.
Portea Medical: Portea Medical brings hospital-quality care to the doorstep. Nursing, physiotherapy, doctor visits, lab tests, and elder care across 135+ cities in India. It's built for the moments patients need real medical care outside a hospital.
Niramai: Niramai is closing India's breast cancer screening gap with Thermalytix, a radiation-free, non-touch AI test that reads thermal images to flag early-stage tumors. It works for women of all ages and breast densities, complementing mammography rather than replacing it.
4/ New Frontiers: Rising HealthTech Pioneers
MedGate GPT is a healthcare AI assistant built for India's fragmented medical information landscape, answering questions on doctors, hospitals, labs, medicines, and health policy in any language. It also works as a clinical reference tool for professionals, covering drug guidelines and literature, and can be embedded into a hospital or clinic's own site via API or chat widget.
Curapod is tackling chronic pain with a wearable, drug-free device that uses photobiomodulation, a clinically validated form of light therapy, to stimulate cellular repair at the site of pain. Its companion app personalizes therapy plans, tracks progress, and adjusts intensity based on comfort, letting clinicians monitor recovery remotely instead of relying on repeat in-person visits. Manufactured entirely in India and CDSCO and FDA-registered.
5/ Mergers and Acquisitions: Indian Healthcare
Dr. Lal PathLabs acquires 80% stake in Ghana’s Sunshine Healthcare
Thyrocare to exit radiology business, sell Nuclear Healthcare stake for ₹141 crore.
Jagsonpal Pharma to acquire Group Pharma’s wellness portfolio
Advent International to invest ₹3,150 crore in Yatharth Hospitals for 24.9% stake
Permira to buy 25.71% in Cloudnine Hospitals parent: CCI filing
6/ Deal Desk
Spotlight on latest capital raises and investments…
Rio Health: Rio Health raises $4.5 Million to expand Delhi-NCR medicine delivery network.
Betterhood: Betterhood raises ₹11.5 Crore in seed round led by Sauce.
DocPharma: DocPharma raises $2 Million to expand healthcare quick-commerce network to 50 cities.
Ansell: Ansell to setup new $60 Million glove manufacturing plant in India.
