Bosch launches locally developed eye care solution

Bosch today said it has launched a locally-developed eye-care solution in the country.
The company's new eye screening and detection system offers a combination of hardware and software and provides affordable eye care, Bosch said in a release.
The compact hand-held fundus camera is designed to respond to the shortage of eye-care specialists and the high demand for vision screening in the country, it added.
"We believe that Bosch's eye screening and detection system will bring global standards of eye care to India. It has been conceptualised and developed in India with state-of-the-art technology from across the world," Steffen Berns, the president of the Bosch Group in India said.

According to eye-care experts, 80 per cent of cases of vision loss in India are preventable. Bosch's eye screening and detection system meets the demand for comprehensive eye care of the middle and lower-income demographic and offers high functionality, ease of use, and a cost effective system to doctors, the company said.
It said Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Limited, Bosch's largest software development center outside Germany, started the product development almost two years ago in collaboration with various startups and universities. The device has been tested by several eye-care providers.
Thus far, Bosch India has filed five patents in this field and is planning to further develop the technology in this line of business in the upcoming years, it added.