Anugami

The Antara Foundation

Anugami

A digital intelligence layer that connects health systems around every woman and child

Delhi, India

India

Nonprofit

Maternal and newborn deaths remain a major global challenge despite expanded services and digital health investments. In India alone, nearly 800,000 children under five die each year from preventable causes, and thousands of women lose their lives to pregnancy-related complications. The highest risk occurs during the perinatal period, from late pregnancy through the first week after birth, when timely coordination across the health system is critical. The core problem is not the absence of care, but fragmentation. India has strengthened institutional deliveries, community health workers, and digital tracking platforms, yet maternal and newborn care still spans multiple actors (frontline workers, facilities, referral centres, and government teams) operating across systems that rarely communicate seamlessly. Clinical risk data is recorded but not synthesised; referrals are initiated but not tracked end-to-end; and follow-ups rely heavily on manual effort with limited real-time visibility. Unless systems and stakeholders are connected and information flows seamlessly across the continuum of care, this preventable loss of life will persist.

Anugami is a digital innovation that creates a real-time network connecting community health workers, healthcare facilities, and district teams across the maternal-newborn care continuum. Instead of adding a new app, it works as an intelligent layer that integrates key government service delivery platforms into one unified, beneficiary-centric system. Anugami orchestrates care through six key stages: high-risk pregnancy identification, birth preparedness, facility tagging, delivery coordination, sick newborn care, and post-discharge follow-up. It pulls data across platforms to spot risks, then uses rule-based algorithms to send targeted nudges to CHWs, personalised for each high-risk woman or neonate, and to auto-alert facilities and ambulances. This eliminates manual data entry while guiding timely, coordinated actions. Anugami's tech stack includes interoperable APIs for seamless data flow, cloud-based architecture for real-time analytics, mobile-first interfaces for frontline workers (using WhatsApp APIs to send nudges), and a centralised "war room" dashboard for district teams to monitor cases live.

Anugami serves women and newborns in underserved rural and tribal communities across the Antara Foundation’s intervention areas (currently 8 districts and over 8,000 villages, reaching nearly 1 million people). A significant proportion of beneficiaries belong to tribal populations that experience structural inequities, geographic isolation, and limited access to timely healthcare, contributing to disproportionately higher risks of neonatal and post-neonatal mortality. The primary users of the solution are community health workers and public health system stakeholders, including ASHAs, ANMs, CHOs, medical officers, and facility staff, who are central to delivering care but often operate within fragmented digital systems and siloed workflows that limit coordination and timely response. Anugami strengthens equity by digitally connecting stakeholders into a unified care network that enables beneficiary-centric tracking, automated risk alerts, and real-time nudges across community and facility levels. This results in early risk identification, faster referrals, improved continuity of care, reduced delays in critical interventions, and greater accountability, ultimately improving maternal and neonatal survival outcomes. While the solution is currently being rolled out in districts where Antara Foundation is directly present, Anugami is being developed as a plug-and-play interface for a multi-state, multi-stakeholder public health environment.