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Dettol Banega Swasth India Maternal And Child Health Tech Accelerator: Top 3 Winners Driving Change
New Delhi: Reckitt, in partnership with PATH and the Centre for Health Research and Innovation (CHRI), had launched the Dettol Banega Swasth India Maternal and Child Health Tech Accelerator, a platform to identify, nurture, and scale impactful innovations in maternal and child healthcare across India. Through a rigorous selection process, 21 promising innovations were shortlisted, each addressing key challenges in four critical categories:
- Newborn and Child Health
- Maternal and Women’s Health
- Early Childhood Development During the First 1,000 Days
- Nutrition and Blood Health
These innovations represented diverse, life-saving solutions designed to work in low-resource settings and have the potential to significantly improve health outcomes for mothers and children. After thorough evaluation based on effectiveness, scalability, usability, and cost-efficiency, three outstanding innovators were selected as winners to lead the way in transforming healthcare access and quality.
Here is the list of the winners of the Maternal and Child Health Tech Accelerator:
SaveMom AI Platform by SaveMom Pvt Ltd.: SaveMom is an AI-powered platform that helps mothers and babies stay healthy by continuously monitoring their health from pregnancy through the child’s first two years. It is an AI-driven continuous maternal and child health monitoring platform with wearables and decision support that tracks pregnancy and child development during the critical first 1,000 days.
Certification/Achievements: It has received multiple awards, including the Saksham MNCH Aavishkar Challenge (USAID), Best Maternal Innovation 2023, TiE Matrix Best Scalable Startup Award 2023, TEDCO Best Tech Startup of the Year 2023, among others.
Baby Warmth Bundle (TempWatch Hypothermia Alert Device & KangaSling KMC Tool) by BEMPU Health: The Baby Warmth Bundle helps protect newborn babies from hypothermia by using a smart bracelet that alerts parents if their baby’s temperature drops and a special wrap that keeps babies warm with skin-to-skin contact. This bundle includes two affordable combined solutions to help eradicate injury from neonatal hypothermia in hospital and home or community settings. TempWatch is a bracelet that continuously monitors a newborn’s temperature and alerts parents if the baby is cold, enabling timely Kangaroo Care. The KangaSling is an ergonomic sling made specifically for babies weighing under 2.5 kg, providing better support than regular wraps or towels.
Impact: TempWatch and KangaSling have helped over 150,000 newborns in 23 countries.
Certification/Achievements: The ChARM project has secured $2 million from Saving Lives At Birth (USAID, Gates Foundation, GCC, and others), $500,000 from Grand Challenges Canada, and $300,000 from the Gates Foundation. It was also recognized as one of TIME Magazine’s Top Inventions of 2017.
Neuroscience-based Toys (BrainyTots) by BrainyTots: BrainyTots creates toys designed by brain science to help tiny children learn and grow through fun, screen-free play that builds language, thinking, and social skills. These stage-based early learning kits are designed to support brain development in infants and toddlers through safe, purposeful play aligned with pediatric milestones.
Impact: So far, over 10,000 babies in more than 900 areas have benefited from turning playtime into brain-building moments. Each box offers preventive healthcare, fun learning, and reassurance for parents.
Certification/Achievements: The brand won Best Montessori Brand 2025 and was featured in Corporate Tycoons Magazine as a top early childhood startup.
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By spotlighting these three innovations, the Dettol Banega Swasth India Tech Accelerator has not only encouraged technological advancement but also strengthened the collective effort to enhance maternal and child health. This achievement reflects a vital step toward building healthier futures for India’s most vulnerable populations.
NDTV – Dettol have been working towards a clean and healthy India since 2014 via the Banega Swachh India initiative, which in its Season 10 is helmed by Campaign Ambassador Ayushmann Khurrana. The campaign aims to highlight the inter-dependency of humans and the environment, and of humans on one another with the focus on One Health, One Planet, One Future – Leaving No One Behind. It stresses on the need to take care of, and consider, everyone’s health in India – especially vulnerable communities – the LGBTQ population, indigenous people, India’s different tribes, ethnic and linguistic minorities, people with disabilities, migrants, geographically remote populations, gender and sexual minorities. In a world post COVID-19 pandemic, the need for WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) is reaffirmed as handwashing is one of the ways to prevent Coronavirus infection and other diseases. The campaign will continue to raise awareness on the same along with focussing on the importance of nutrition and healthcare for women and children, fight malnutrition, mental well-being, self-care, science and health, adolescent health & gender awareness. Along with the health of people, the campaign has realised the need to also take care of the health of the eco-system. Our environment is fragile due to human activity, which is not only over-exploiting available resources, but also generating immense pollution as a result of using and extracting those resources. The imbalance has also led to immense biodiversity loss that has caused one of the biggest threats to human survival – climate change. It has now been described as a “code red for humanity.” The campaign will continue to cover issues like air pollution, waste management, plastic ban, manual scavenging and sanitation workers and menstrual hygiene. Banega Swasth India will also be taking forward the dream of Swasth Bharat, the campaign feels that only a Swachh or clean India where toilets are used and open defecation free (ODF) status achieved as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, can eradicate diseases like diahorrea and the country can become a Swasth or healthy India.
