In Indian Sundarbans, tech enables health care for all

Tumpa Pal is the first person with visual impairments to be trained as a health worker by the Foundation for Innovations in Health, or FIH — a nonprofit organization based in India's eastern city of Kolkata.
 
Her training and work in the field are made possible by  the Dot Pad. The tablet, which turns visual information into touch, was developed by Dot Inc, a South Korean company.

With her fingertips, Pal can feel and understand images, charts and graphs in real time.

These devices don't come cheap — each costs €3,000 to 3,500 — but it opens new possibilities for health workers.