Aastha

Problem: In many regions of Bangladesh, people don’t have proper access to healthcare in time. There are physical, economical and social barriers. They tend to ignore health hazards because the hospital is far away or the cost is too high. The doctor visits are also time consuming and a pain on its own.We are trying to eradicate these general barriers to healthcare

Solution: A platform that enables users to connect licensed doctors, pharmacies, and licensed medical laboratory services. Users can communicate with medical professionals via chat, video and voice call on this platform.

Impact: The platform will create increased health awareness and also provide affordable access to healthcare in Bangladesh.

In a survey of 300 respondents of the people, age range between 18-50 thinks that, there are some major factors to neglect small medical issues and avoid going to hospitals in the primary stage of a disease. 33.8% think that appointment hassle is the major factor. And nearest response goes for ‘Time issues in doctor’s chamber’. 21.3% of people think that long queue in the doctor's chamber demotivates them to avoid primary treatment of hospitals. So, a majority person depends on the self-considered medicine suggestion of pharmacy shopkeepers. And, in almost all cases, people create more problems or symptoms for their suggestion.

The people we are looking to serve are primarily rural or in some cases urban people who are looking for easy and affordable access to medical advice.

We have visited the rural practices of professional doctors and noticed the substantial demand of proper medical advice in these areas. Many doctors have set up weekly practices. As a result, the people have only a single day of access to proper medical advice and most of the time there are huge lines and wait times. Furthermore, we have noticed a general lack of motivation from people to travel long distances for seemingly minuscule matters but which end up being crucial.

Our solution will bring healthcare advice to the doorstep of the people in need. They would be able to access our services and get to determine whether they should visit a hospital or just take a prescribed medicine.

The application based solution will provide- 

• Instant suggestions from licensed doctors.

• Treatment advice

• Instant first aid advice

• Messaging/ Calling doctors.

• Previous data records of a patient.

• Appointment facilities in any hospital in serious condition.

• Alternative medicine suggestion.  

Process:

Online facets:

People can use Chat bots, voice calls and video calls in our app to get checked and get medical advice for a fee.After the checkup, they will get a digital prescription.

Offline Facets:
There will be Partnered pharmacies x or “ Lifeline” box in specific areas they can also avail the services here. The technologically challenged population can use these places to get consultation.
They can get the medicines from these lifeline boxes or for a certain fee they can be delivered to any address.
They can even request certain lab tests at these boxes or to be conducted at home.
 
Technologies being used:

1. Internet
2. Video chat
3. Predicting demand and supply through data analysis
4. Delivery services

Activities:

1.Using online services to bring healthcare services to rural people

2.Work with Pharmacies to provide medicines

3.Bringing proper laboratory tests and medical advice to rural people

4.Poor, middle class people will get this service at a very affordable cost.

Short term Outcomes:

1. People become more aware about health problems
2. Improve local medicine supply
3. Better medical services available to people 

Long term Effects:

1. Lower mortality rate for rural people
2. Better data and organized information on health care statistics
3. Higher health stats overall

Currently serving: 0

In 1 year: 50,000

In 5 years: 10,000,00

Goals for next Year:

1. Get the business up and running 
2. Create awareness about the service( Target Population: 100000)
3. Start services in Upzilas

Goals for next 5 years:

1. Expand the business to grass-root level
2. Acquire expert doctors for advisory borads

Barriers (1 year)

1. Availing technology to rural people
2. On-boarding doctors
3. Creating Awareness

Barriers(5 year)

1. Funding for up scaling

A group of 12 people from different universities from Bangadesh

We've searched about the common problem people face in our society. And this Healthcare based problem.

Then, 

The solution team participants have parents who are doctor and have studied the condition of healthcare in rural areas. We have the connections to bring this initiative to life and want to work on this to passionately.

We have people from different fields working in our team and they all have specialized roles. With proper funding and guidance we believe this team can bring this solution to life

We currently want to finance our activities with- 1.Seed funding 

2.Venture Capitalist

Our core revenue will be generated as commission fees for our services

Tiger Challenge can provide us with

1. Funding

2. Partnership opportunities

3. Guidance on strategic and operational front

Pharmaceutical companies

Mobile financing companies

Startup incubators