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Docsmart: Taking a Tech-Driven Approach to Make All Healthcare Verticals Accessible on One Platform

India is the second most populous country in the world with a population of over 120 crores. The number of doctors to cater to this continuously rising population is not equally sufficient. Owing to this fact, adequate and equitable distribution of healthcare services has always been a challenge in our country. Adding to this mismatch is the recent trend of concentration of healthcare facilities in the cities and towns which includes 75 percent of the population of doctors, which is away from rural India, where 68.84 percent of the national population lives. To add to the above challenges, in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has also contributed its bit to the unprecedented burden on an already burdened healthcare system in a country like ours. At a time like this, Telemedicine empowers...