Emergency healthcare solutions to remote rural villages in India

Emergency healthcare solutions are accessible to remote rural villages in India

My Favourite Challenge is “How can we make healthcare solutions are accessible to remote rural villages in India with rocket speed”. Health care is one of the primary need in any civilized society and has always been given enough importance given in developed countries. But, in India still it is a distant dream of having accessible immediate health care. There are about 2.4 million Indians die due to treatable conditions every year, out of which 1.6 million died due to poor quality of care and remaining due to non-availability of health services as per the Lancet survey report 2016. The worst part is, we are behind to some of our neighbouring small countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan in Global Health access and Quality (HAQ) Index. We were placed in 145^th position out of 195 countries in this Index

There are many ways to solve this problem. I selected below solution as it has high impact and low cost of initial implementation.

Solution

 Development of Mobile Application/Platform which provides information about the actions to be taken at emergency medical situations and helps to connect patient to doctors and also facilitate the dropping of medicines required through drones in emergency situation. Though smartphone reached many parts of our country, a dedicated helpline number will also be maintained to provide this information over phone. The idea here to use the platform based business model act as interface between doctors and patients and patients and drone suppliers.

Feels like Prototype: Story Board

Feel like Prototype:

 One day Low Cost Experiment

The following activities will be performed as part of my one day low cost experiment.

-          Develop a Mobile Application with minimal features i.e. Main page and another page which explains an action to be taken in case of sudden heart attacks using online free Mobile UI designer software.

-          Share that mobile application to few friends and families, which will also covers people staying in rural areas

-          Collect the feedback on application’s ease of use

-          Collect the suggestions to improve on overall concept and idea

Cost: The money required for to do this experiment is zero as infrastructure is already in place and only required 2 to 3 hours of human effort. I can take up that prototype development in my free time, so it does not cost anything.

Hypothesis testing: This experiment tests the hypothesis “emergency healthcare solutions are accessible to remote rural villages in India with rocket speed” is possible.

Success Measure: The experiment is considered as success if a person who sits in remote village sees value in this idea.