Imagine a new born baby in your family, who needs intimidate care after birth and there are no facilities available or if available, they are too expensive for you. How painful this can be? Here’s the answer to this question.

Malav Sanghavi, a student of Innovation Design Engineering (IDE) Master’s Dual degree course at Imperial College London and Royal College of art, invented ‘Baby-Life Box’ made up of cardboard which has the potential to save millions all over the world. It is an affordable baby incubator that provides basic care to infants at grass-root level to survive. He won 3rd prize in a start-up competition held at St. Jame’s Palace in London.

How he got this Idea?

“BabyLifeBox is a low-cost baby incubator that provides basic neonatal care at grassroots-level. India has highest number of babies dying within the first 24 hours of their birth in the world, more than 300,000 a year,” Sanghavi said.

“According to our initial research, we found that India’s healthcare service has facilities to deal with a standard birth at sub-centres, primary health centres and community health centres but it lacks the infrastructure for a neonatal care of premature and underweight infants,” Sanghavi added.

The idea of developing a low-cost cardboard baby incubator to help save millions of lives in several countries like India, which lacks basic infrastructure for neonatal care of premature and underweight new born babies, came to his mind when his own cousin’s daughter had to be kept in an incubator to keep her alive.

Now he is looking for initial seed funding to expand his team and bring in more experts on board to develop minimal viable prototypes and start clinical trials.