9 April 2026
By Publisher Ray Carmen
In a quiet but powerful breakthrough emerging from South Asia, a Sri Lankan innovator is harnessing artificial intelligence to tackle one of the world’s fastest-growing causes of preventable blindness — diabetic eye disease.
At the centre of this transformation is Dr. Dhanushi Hettiarachchi, founder of Ophtha Innovations, a Colombo-based MedTech company using AI to detect diabetic retinopathy at its earliest and most treatable stages.
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