Startups are effectively Tackling the unorganized EMS System
In a country like India, road accidents and sudden incidents like snake bite, dog bite, bee bite are too common and sounds dangerous and helpless at the same time. These incidents are moreover witnessed in the towns & villages where people struggle for healthcare and medical emergency services. Catering to these unpredictable incidents, startups are evolving with more advanced solutions and equipment related to medical emergency services. It is not always good to be too late and that is why startups are building accessible, affordable and connective decentralized aggregated ecosystem for all sorts of healthcare and emergency for both urban and rural India.
Today, medical emergency service is not just limited with road ways, in fact advanced facilities are provided via trains and flights that are dedicated to reach the local ordinants and ordinance points located in same cities, other cities and countries too. Further, medical services are upgraded with quick doctor appointments, instant ambulance bookings, easy delivery of medicines and synchronizing ordinance point with the nearest prime medical aid cities. Today, doctors and nurses are easily available via mobile apps. Book a session or need to appoint a nurse everything is available at one click.
Startups are revolutionizing this service through various innovative ideas like an app-based emergency assistance, chatbots to communicate any doubt or query, GPS based technology platform, safety wearables and more. It is good that India is overcoming healthcare issues and effectively focusing on solving unmet clinical matters. In the upcoming days, let us hope that startups scrutinize more methods and ideas to deliver the service within the golden hours. It is a major concern that accidents are more and undoubtedly ambulances are also more, but are they reaching on time and providing all the facilities to control the problem, is the main question in all our minds. Therefore, startups are trying their best to focus on looking after all those major issues that are leading for high rates of deaths.
This concern cannot be solved in one or two days, government and enablers must profoundly invest on improving services and solutions and simultaneously budgeting is also a key concern, because these issues are major problems in both urban and rural area. For an example, two years back, Tamil Nadu launched a scheme under which accident victims on the highways could be rushed to hospitals close to highways for immediate treatment. The state-sponsored scheme provides for free treatment up to Rs. 1 lakh for the first 48 hours in 609 hospitals, of which 408 are from the private sector. The scheme also covers those from other states and abroad.
We need more such schemes and initiatives in order to save the wounded and simultaneously lower the road-traffic injury. During the emergency, sending an advanced ambulance is not enough, even the team/staff should be well trained and skillful in operating tech-based equipment.
Vinod Paul, a former professor at AIIMS and member, NITI Ayog summed up the journey so far, “Accident and emergency services have witnessed uneven progress in India. Given its extraordinary importance, it is time that India embarks on creating a world-class, efficient, professional and integrated system, enabled by technology, for the care of any victim of accidents, emergency or trauma in any part of the country”.
As a whole, the emergency medical system market should strike harder to fill up these gaps in order to make the services more effective, efficient and worthy.
Today, medical emergency service is not just limited with road ways, in fact advanced facilities are provided via trains and flights that are dedicated to reach the local ordinants and ordinance points located in same cities, other cities and countries too. Further, medical services are upgraded with quick doctor appointments, instant ambulance bookings, easy delivery of medicines and synchronizing ordinance point with the nearest prime medical aid cities. Today, doctors and nurses are easily available via mobile apps. Book a session or need to appoint a nurse everything is available at one click.
Startups are revolutionizing this service through various innovative ideas like an app-based emergency assistance, chatbots to communicate any doubt or query, GPS based technology platform, safety wearables and more. It is good that India is overcoming healthcare issues and effectively focusing on solving unmet clinical matters. In the upcoming days, let us hope that startups scrutinize more methods and ideas to deliver the service within the golden hours. It is a major concern that accidents are more and undoubtedly ambulances are also more, but are they reaching on time and providing all the facilities to control the problem, is the main question in all our minds. Therefore, startups are trying their best to focus on looking after all those major issues that are leading for high rates of deaths.
This concern cannot be solved in one or two days, government and enablers must profoundly invest on improving services and solutions and simultaneously budgeting is also a key concern, because these issues are major problems in both urban and rural area. For an example, two years back, Tamil Nadu launched a scheme under which accident victims on the highways could be rushed to hospitals close to highways for immediate treatment. The state-sponsored scheme provides for free treatment up to Rs. 1 lakh for the first 48 hours in 609 hospitals, of which 408 are from the private sector. The scheme also covers those from other states and abroad.
We need more such schemes and initiatives in order to save the wounded and simultaneously lower the road-traffic injury. During the emergency, sending an advanced ambulance is not enough, even the team/staff should be well trained and skillful in operating tech-based equipment.
Vinod Paul, a former professor at AIIMS and member, NITI Ayog summed up the journey so far, “Accident and emergency services have witnessed uneven progress in India. Given its extraordinary importance, it is time that India embarks on creating a world-class, efficient, professional and integrated system, enabled by technology, for the care of any victim of accidents, emergency or trauma in any part of the country”.
As a whole, the emergency medical system market should strike harder to fill up these gaps in order to make the services more effective, efficient and worthy.
