Chennai Apr 20 PTI Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras IIT-M were working with the National Health Mission of Tamil Nadu to improve health of newborns as health workers were facing a major challenge at primary health centres PHCs in rural areas of the State A project report SmartNRP neonatal resuscitation programme was released by the National Health Mission Tamil Nadu director Darez Ahamed recently to reduce the maternal mortality rate in the presence IIT-Madras director-professor V Kamakoti among others A team at the IIT-Madras Centre of Excellence on virtual reality identified skill training of the health workers as the major challenge the country was facing particularly at the PHCs Using virtual reality artificial intelligencemachine learning the SmartNRP tool will be used for training the workers at PHCs in Tamil Nadu under the National Health Mission This will be scaled subsequently to other States where NMR is very high IIT-Madras said in a press release If you look at infant mortality the biggest contributor is the neonatal mortality rate NMR which is death within 28 days of birth Around 40 babies are lost per every 1000 births We want to bring this down to single digit and all these initiatives are towards this direction Ahamed said IIT-Madras should also develop tools to train healthcare workers on various other areas such as treating accident victimsthere are numerous other areas that virtual reality can be utilised he said Kamakoti said I am sure virtual reality will make impact not only on healthcare verticals but in other areas as well There are a lot of very interesting ideas from IIT-Madras research scholars and students The projects were supported by corporate social responsibility initiatives of INdiaIdeascomBillDesk This support was crucial in developing the healthcare projects the release said PTI VIJ NVG NVG

Chennai Feb 28 PTI Water cans will be provided in the compartments of the trains running between Mettupalayam and Udhagamandalam ooty the Nilgiri Mountain Railway the Southern Railway informed the Madras High Court on Monday When the batch of PIL petitions seeking strict implementation of the ban on plastic products came up for further hearing today Southern Railway counsel told the division bench of Justices V Bharathidasan and N Sathish Kumar that the decision was taken to dissuade passengers from carrying plastic bottles He also told the judges that plastic debris weighing over 2300 kg were removed from the tracks The judges adjourned the matter till March 18 after directing the Railways to file a report on the same PTI CORR SA SA

Coimbatore Dec 21 PTI With the damaged railway track in the Mettualayam-Coonoor section of Nilgiris Mountain Railway NMR being restored the Mettupalayam-Udhagamandalam-Mettupalayam trains will resume from December 22 Railway officials said on Tuesday The services had been cancelled for the last one month due to landslides and falling of boulders on the track particularly near the Hillgrove railway station due to heavy rains leading to disappointment among the tourists PTI NVM SS SS

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