Dr. Renganathan, Co-founder at Vaatsalya Healthcare Solutions, who will talk about “A Novice’s Experiment with Affordable Healthcare”. While Dr. Renga describes himself as a “jack of all trades but absolutely master of none”, he holds a PhD from IISc and an MBA from Portland State, has worked at Glaxo, Smithkline & Intel, and has been a full-time faculty at Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon.

In his talk next Saturday the 1st of Feb 2014 at 4pm, Dr. Renga will sketch the healthcare scenario in India, talk about Vaatsalya ‘s attempts to provide affordable healthcare and his own views on delivery of such services.

We learnt how frugal innovation and focused problem solving was used to successfully deliver medical care to Indian families living in non-metropolitan locations with income levels of INR 36K-120K/year.

Presentation link: http://www.slideshare.net/Lounge47/a-novices-experiment-with-affordable-healthcare