New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- Traumatic brain injuries are a significant public health challenge, particularly in rural areas and underserved populations where advanced diagnostic tools like CT or MRI scans are inaccessible or delayed. Now, India has developed a handheld portable brain injury scan machine that can be used to detect bleeding inside the brain.

Speaking to ANI about the made-in-India handheld brain scan machine, Dr Rajeev Bahl, DG, ICMR, said, "This is a very new technology, which is completely Indian and was developed in an incubator at an IIT in India, supported by ICMR, including its clinical validation and further health technology assessment for cost-effectiveness. It is now available in the government E-market phase... This t...