BHUBANESWAR: Now the newly married couples, who have profession making plans and don't want early parenthood, can take lend a hand of a city-based startup ‘Santaan’ to preserve or freeze their eggs, sperms and embryos for making a toddler sooner or later. This startup has set up research labs and hospital right here and Berhampur to provide whole solutions to people facing infertility issues.
The sperms, eggs and embryos are preserved thru cryopreservation method. This method uses very low temperatures to preserve residing cells and tissues at a temperature of -196 degree Celsius. Liquid nitrogen may be utilized for this goal. People affected by cancer can preserve their eggs or sperms earlier than beginning in their remedy. Even males can opt for sperm cryopreservation earlier than present process vasectomy surgical treatment.
Raghab Prasad Panda, 43, CEO and co-founder of Santaan, stated overall occurrence of number one infertility in India is between three.nine to 16.eight per cent and it varies from state to state. “People have come forward for sperm and egg cryopreservation. We also provide in vitro fertility (IVF) remedy along side other amenities. Both urban and rural people come to our hospital looking for solutions,” he added.
Panda, a control professional, began the startup in 2015 with his college good friend Satish Prasad Rath, 43, a paediatrics physician and a researcher. As either one of them belong to Berhampur, they'd began the startup at Berhampur after which in Bhubaneswar later.
“We came up with the startup to do something innovative within the field. We are engaging in research in creating affordable and reliable next-gen embryo monitoring and selection device with the assistance of IIT Hyderabad. This device is used for the IVF procedure. Department of science and era beneath the Union ministry of human resource building has provided funding for the research. After this, the indigenous device will come to the Indian market and enormously scale back the remedy value,” he added.
He stated the state government has also helped them to work on the use of web of things (IoT) based 3D printed time-lapse sensible microscope for embryo monitoring in IVF clinics. It will even scale back the price of the remedy, he added.
Panda stated they first confronted drawback in getting just right embryologists in the market. “So we began providing embryology direction coaching to science graduates and put up graduates from a biology background. Around 50 of them have got placements in India’s very best fertility clinics. These technicians get hands-on comprehensive coaching on IVF and other fertility remedy procedures. Even we teach doctors on some sophisticated infertility remedy procedures,” he added.
The maximum essential facet of the startup is preventive breast cancer screening. Current early analysis methods involve harmful radiation and occasionally invasive and painful. But the startup delivers accessible, affordable and no-touch process for breast cancer screening thru Termalytix solution. “A digicam like a tool attached with a computer is used for the process. Unlike mammography, the imaging means is radiation unfastened, non-touch, not painful and works for girls of every age and right through being pregnant too. We are putting in place camps in different places of the state for screening,” he added.
Panda stated they've began making income from their startup. “We had invested round Rs eight crore for the lab, clinics and training modules. Now we are doing superb in this sector,” he added.
The sperms, eggs and embryos are preserved thru cryopreservation method. This method uses very low temperatures to preserve residing cells and tissues at a temperature of -196 degree Celsius. Liquid nitrogen may be utilized for this goal. People affected by cancer can preserve their eggs or sperms earlier than beginning in their remedy. Even males can opt for sperm cryopreservation earlier than present process vasectomy surgical treatment.
Raghab Prasad Panda, 43, CEO and co-founder of Santaan, stated overall occurrence of number one infertility in India is between three.nine to 16.eight per cent and it varies from state to state. “People have come forward for sperm and egg cryopreservation. We also provide in vitro fertility (IVF) remedy along side other amenities. Both urban and rural people come to our hospital looking for solutions,” he added.
Panda, a control professional, began the startup in 2015 with his college good friend Satish Prasad Rath, 43, a paediatrics physician and a researcher. As either one of them belong to Berhampur, they'd began the startup at Berhampur after which in Bhubaneswar later.
“We came up with the startup to do something innovative within the field. We are engaging in research in creating affordable and reliable next-gen embryo monitoring and selection device with the assistance of IIT Hyderabad. This device is used for the IVF procedure. Department of science and era beneath the Union ministry of human resource building has provided funding for the research. After this, the indigenous device will come to the Indian market and enormously scale back the remedy value,” he added.
He stated the state government has also helped them to work on the use of web of things (IoT) based 3D printed time-lapse sensible microscope for embryo monitoring in IVF clinics. It will even scale back the price of the remedy, he added.
Panda stated they first confronted drawback in getting just right embryologists in the market. “So we began providing embryology direction coaching to science graduates and put up graduates from a biology background. Around 50 of them have got placements in India’s very best fertility clinics. These technicians get hands-on comprehensive coaching on IVF and other fertility remedy procedures. Even we teach doctors on some sophisticated infertility remedy procedures,” he added.
The maximum essential facet of the startup is preventive breast cancer screening. Current early analysis methods involve harmful radiation and occasionally invasive and painful. But the startup delivers accessible, affordable and no-touch process for breast cancer screening thru Termalytix solution. “A digicam like a tool attached with a computer is used for the process. Unlike mammography, the imaging means is radiation unfastened, non-touch, not painful and works for girls of every age and right through being pregnant too. We are putting in place camps in different places of the state for screening,” he added.
Panda stated they've began making income from their startup. “We had invested round Rs eight crore for the lab, clinics and training modules. Now we are doing superb in this sector,” he added.
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