Use new tech to improve health standards, Kalam tells scientists.

(From Business Line)

Byline: P.T. Jyothi Datta

Aurangabad, Sept. 24 - IT was a meeting of scientific minds, when the President, Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, met the 400-odd scientists at the Wockhardt Biotech Park in Aurangabad.

And while the interactive, though brief, session saw the President take queries from the scientists on "what it takes to make a mission successful" - the President touched on issues such as leadership, challenges faced by the domestic pharma industry and the issue of spurious drugs.

He also cautioned them regarding HIV/AIDS, malaria and cardiac-diseases, the three main diseases that the country would have to deal with …