Netra: cataract screening and eye-care guidance, on any phone
Cataract is the single largest cause of blindness in India, and most of it is treatable. The gap is not surgery — it is reaching a specialist early enough. Netra closes that gap with a phone camera and a conversation.
A person photographs their eye, describes the problem in their own words, and gets a clear answer: what the signs suggest, how urgent it is, and where the nearest government or subsidised eye hospital is. Free to use, and built to work on low-end phones and weak networks.
- Deep-learning classification of cataract from smartphone eye images
- Conversational triage in plain language, for people with no clinical vocabulary
- Red-flag detection that escalates urgent cases instead of reassuring them
- Referral to the nearest public or low-cost eye hospital
- Designed for Indian-language support and offline-tolerant use
Netra screens and directs. It does not diagnose, and every result points the person toward a qualified ophthalmologist.
Interface concept — not a live medical device