For all practical purposes, Perfint Healthcare can add a middle name: Evangelist. In cancer, where the triad of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation forms a doctor’s arsenal, Perfint introduced robotic diagnostics in India in 2009. With an image-guided system that helps practitioners place the needle on the tumour, Perfint provided, for the first time, options for a 3-dimensional look and treatment of cancerous body parts.
(This story appears in the 09 November, 2012 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
It shows the doggedness of these entrepreneurs as developing such products in this country is not easy. Irony is, this country country needs such innovation by the hundreds, esp in cancer.
on Nov 8, 2012