SURVIVE

Emergency in-situation suicide rescue device for rural areas, a low-cost medical device which could de-poison patients in seconds for farmer suicides and suicide cases in Indian Villages.

Forty-five farmers commit suicide every day in India, most of them by poisoning, yet there is no immediate treatment available in Indian villages.

There is a very significant need for a post suicide Treatment Management System in Indian Villages which could perform Gastric Lavage (Traditional Poison Removal Process) as fast as possible to save lives in emergency situations!

There is no service offered to the suicide patients in the village itself due to multiple reasons.

By the time the patient reaches the city for treatment the poison has already entered into the circulatory system of the patient & ends up dying.

Till today there hasn’t been any solution that makes life-saving accessible for suicide cases in remote areas and such a crucial problem has been overlooked for all these years.

There are no immediate treatments in Indian villages, the patient needs to travel to the city with very bad connecting roads from the village to the city it makes it worse.

Even when the patient reaches the hospital in the city the existing process of poison removal(Gastric Lavage) is a very time consuming & lengthy & riskful process.

SURVIVE is the first of its kind to completely automate the gastric lavage process for the village use case scenario to drastically reduce the time & efforts of the treatment where every second is very crucial to save the patient's life.

A new technology inspired by the amalgamation of the unique abilities of an Oil Rig Factorie’s oil pulling out mechanism and the way the Steam Engine in the past used to work. A combination of these inspirations together helps in Converting the circular movement from the motor into 2 syringe suck and push movement which in turn automate the entire process constantly to drastically reduce time & efforts of treatment.

SURVIVE can carry out gastric irrigation in just 2 to 5 minutes whereas a conventional gastric irrigation process takes up to 45 mins.

This device can be used in ambulances, hospitals, and especially in scenarios where no emergency medical personnel are at hand.

SURVIVE requires very minimal training to use. So that anyone with very little training like even the rural healthcare worker could use this product in emergency situations!

A low-cost medical device which could de-poison patients in seconds for farmer suicides and suicide cases in Indian Villages.

First of its kind low-cost medical device to completely automate the gastric lavage process which could de-poison patients in seconds for farmer suicide cases in Indian villages.

The primary users are the rural healthcare workers in rural healthcare centres. Also used by nurses, doctors and other professionals for gastric lavage. Giving the farmer and family a second chance in life.

There are more than 5 lakh villages all over India and more than 1.5 lakh working Sub-centres (Rural healthcare centres) where there is a serious need for a post-suicide treatment management system.

This product would serve this need to each one of the Sub-centres all over the country so that it can effectively reach every suicide patient out there in the village context to save lives at the earliest without depending on reaching to the city hospitals.

Since this product requires very minimal training and the Indian government has made it mandatory to have AASHA Workers (Rural healthcare workers) in every village in the country, SURVIVE could be easily used by them in the villages during emergencies.

Even the Indian government has been looking for innovations in this area to help this critical situation in Indian villages.

Hello, Namaste, Vanakkam, this is Siddharth UR from India, a creative and empathetic being. I am listed in the Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2023, India (To be disclosed soon), an exhibitor at Prototypes for humanity 2022, Dubai and an 85 international design awards winner. My work focuses on saving and improving people’s lives worldwide by creating meaningful design solutions. I’m an Industrial Design undergraduate from the National Institute of Design(NID), Haryana, India. I secured All India 1st rank in the NID, Haryana admissions 2016. Currently, I am working full-time as an Experience Designer with Philips Healthcare at the Philips Innovation Campus, Research and development, Bangalore, India, with an aim to reimagine the future of healthcare through design.

My work focuses on creating meaningful Design solutions(System, Service, Product UX) to create a serious positive impact on the planet that I live on and I focus on improving lives all over the globe through what I am super passionate about. My work mostly addresses the Sustainable development goals of the UN. 

I believe, me being an Industrial/UX Designer I believe my skills and my understanding of design thinking processes can help in saving and improving lives and towards a sustainable and resilient future. 

I am a Design Thinker who can address real-world challenges through balancing high levels of creativity and technical capability with contextual insights and intense empathy for people. 

I am an industrial design undergraduate from the National Institute of Design, Haryana, India. I have design and innovation skills in the research and development of products. My college was situated in between agricultural lands and every day I go for a walk I could observe, empathise with the local farmer and understand their lives, their problems and their experiences. I have lived and co-created the solution with them.

I have performed intense primary and secondary research to understand, empties and define this problem area. I have spent a month researching different levels of the Indian healthcare system from local clinics, sub-centres, primary healthcare centres, medical colleges, and city hospitals and talking with various stakeholders in the system from doctors, loved ones, rural healthcare workers, Suicide survivors ETC. to understand the problem, user, usage and the context.

Building Empathy, Both primary and secondary research to understand the rural healthcare landscape in India. To get first hand experience with suicide treatments from various stakeholders like to the doctors, nurses, rural healthcare workers etc. Meeting and interacting with suicide survivors and their family members.

I am very passionate about understanding people and what they value, specifically working together with people form different cultures is something that really intrigues me. One important part of the project was the experience of working with different people from various cultures and contexts. Understanding the needs and requirements of underprivileged people and working towards designing solutions for them.

A normal process of Gastric lavage takes around 40-45 min but with SURVIVE the entire process is done in 2-3 minutes, relative to the seriousness of the patient.

It comes with an automatic cutoff mechanism & speed control for customizations.

SURVIVE requires very minimal training to use. So that anyone with very little training like even the rural healthcare worker could use this product in emergency situations!

A complete system of products that makes treatment in the village possible as well as in Multiple contexts like Ambulances & Hospitals.

SURVIVE comes with an All in one User friendly kit with a carry-case that will be used by the rural-health-workers for emergency first aid treatments. This would help them to carry all the necessities at one go to the patient without any Hassles & Delay.

Since this product requires very minimal training & the Indian-government has made it mandatory to have AASHA Workers (Rural-healthcare-workers) in every village of the country, SURVIVE could be easily used by them to save lives in the villages during-emergencies.

Milestones-

1. 20 International Design Awards - SURVIVE has won overall 20 International Design awards including the iF Design, Core 77, Red dot, DIA Etc, In various categories like Health and wellness, design for social impact, Life science, Design for Good.

2. The Final concept was initially prototyped with various materials and the final one was finalised after considering various factors. It took around 50 broken syringes to come with the final working prototype!

Final prototype was tested with Gastric lavage mannequins to test its initial accuracy. Constantly guided and supported with doctors in every decision making of the design process.

3. In the Global Webcast of Philips on October, Sean Carney (Chief Design Officer, Philips Worldwide) appreciated my project SURVIVE and Highlighted the Impact the Project creates in Indian Villages in terms of Access to care where it is needed the most. 

4. SURVIVE is one of the 7 finalists of the Best designs in the Golden Pin Concept design award 2021 out of the 4,965 entries this year. SURVIVE is the only entry from India. 

5. SURVIVE was one of the Top 100 winners in the iF Design talent award 2020 in the health and wellness category judged by 30 international Jury and was recognized for its immense social impact. 

6. SURVIVE won 2 awards in the DNA Paris Design awards 2021 and was invited to receive my award in person at LA Caserne Paris, judged by 25 International Jury Members.

1. To set up a team of engineers and doctors to refine the proof of concept and test it out on real patients and end users to develop the final working prototype.

2. Set up and establish a business model with the product SURVIVE with the help of industry experts and investors and the goal is to roll out the product to as many as rural healthcare centres as possible.

The next step will be to get some funding and reach out to a professional engineer to make a human body testing-ready prototype with the help of engineers and doctors. This new prototype will be tested in real-life scenarios with a real human body for further medical approval by the government. Once that is done we would work on making a manufacture-ready product which ends up in every sub-centre and primary healthcare in Villages to save lives every day.

SURVIVE is the first of its kind to completely automate the gastric lavage process for the village use case scenario to drastically reduce the time & efforts of the treatment where every second is very crucial to save the patient's life.

A new technology inspired by the amalgamation of the unique abilities of an Oil Rig Factorie’s oil pulling out mechanism and the way the Steam Engine in the past used to work. A combination of these inspirations together helps in Converting the circular movement from the motor into 2 syringe suck and push movement which in turn automate the entire process constantly to drastically reduce time & efforts of treatment.

A specially designed valve that has two 1-way valves arranged in a strategic way which helps in alternating the path for sucking and pushing from the saline dispenser to the stomach and from the stomach to the Disposing bag.

There are more than 5 lakh villages all over India and more than 1.5 lakh working Sub-centres (Rural healthcare centres) where there is a serious need for a post-suicide treatment management system.

This product would serve this need to each one of the Sub-centres all over the country so that it can effectively reach every suicide patient out there in the village context to save lives at the earliest without depending on reaching to the city hospitals.

Since this product requires very minimal training and the Indian government has made it mandatory to have AASHA Workers (Rural healthcare workers) in every village in the country, SURVIVE could be easily used by them in the villages during emergencies.

Even the Indian government has been looking for innovations in this area to help this critical situation in Indian villages.

1. This is a very niche and untapped area, If SURVIVE does not enter the market soon, there are high chance other big giants could capture the market.

2. SURVIVE would require medical approvals from the govt before being rolled out to the market. So the key is to build a testing-ready product to get the approvals as quickly as possible.

3. We will need to partner or collaborate with the government to implement and set up the product in every rural healthcare centre. 

4. SURVIVE is at an early stage of its journey and still needs to be refined to be tested with real users.

5. I am working on it alone right now, I am in the process of building a team with multiple expertise to make SURVIVE a reality.

The Final concept was initially prototyped with various materials and the final one was finalised after considering various factors. It took around 50 broken syringes to come with the final working prototype!

Final prototype was tested with Gastric lavage mannequins to test its initial accuracy. Constantly guided and supported with doctors in every decision making of the design process.

I have a physical product prototype that actually works. I have tried this out on a gastric lavage mannequin. The machine sucks out the saline water form the glucose bottle and pushes it into the mock stomach and sucks out the poison from the other syringe and disposes it into to the disposing bag. The machine performs this function as per the speed set by the user. It works perfectly on a mannequin. Video describes this as well.

The next step will be to get some funding and reach to a professional engineer to make a human body testing ready prototype with the help of engineers and doctors. This new prototype will be tested in real life scenarios with a real human body for further medical approval by the government. Once that is done we would work on making a manufacture ready product which end up in every sub-centre and primary healthcare in Villages to save lives every day.

Currently, SURVIVE has been exhibited in the Prototypes for Humanity 2022 in Dubai at the  Dubai international financial centre. I was invited to Dubai by the Dubai government to present my project for five days to Princess Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who was the patron of the event.

SURVIVE is still in the prototype stage and has yet to reach the manufacturing stage. At this stage, we are still working out the business model and looking for investors and mentors who would guide us in establishing a business model. 

Selling this product to state governments, central governments, govt and private hospitals will be the key.

The market for a product like SURVIVE-

The global gastric lavage market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.5% during the forecast period, from 2021 to 2030. The market is driven by factors such as increasing incidence of gastrointestinal diseases and rising awareness about the benefits of gastric lavage among patients.

Hospitals accounted for the largest share in 2018, followed by clinics. North America was the leading region in 2018 and is expected to continue its dominance throughout the forecast period due to high prevalence of gastrointestinal diseases and increasing awareness about benefits of gastric lavage among patients.

All this market size is only with regard to hospitals and clinics in urban areas. But there is another whole market for this product in rural areas to be used by rural healthcare workers.

Why is the gastric Lavage market growing? The growth factors for the global gastric lavage market are increasing demand for minimally invasive surgeries, the rising geriatric population, and technological advancements. The growing awareness about the benefits of gastric lavage is also driving the growth of this market. However, the high cost of devices is restraining the growth of this market to some extent.

The growth factors for the global gastric lavage market are increasing demand for minimally invasive surgeries, the rising geriatric population, and technological advancements. The growing awareness about the benefits of gastric lavage is also driving the growth of this market. However, the high cost of devices is restraining the growth of this market to some extent.

SURVIVE is the first of its kind to completely automate the Gastric lavage process for village use case scenarios and I want to reach the entire market to provide quick and efficient ways to save lives as soon as possible.

There is a need for SURVIVE in every rural healthcare centre and in ambulances, hospitals and clinics to offer emergency first-aid gastric lavage. Selling this product to state governments, central governments, govt and private hospitals will be the key. 

The product is designed to be low-cost so that it can be affordable and practical to be used in rural healthcare centres. The materials and mechanism are chosen accordingly to help in being low cost and provide almost safety for the product.

The exact cost of the product is not yet worked but I intend it to be low cost. 

We can have 2 variants one for the rural healthcare centres which could be low-cost and another version with more features and a sophisticated design for private and multi-speciality hospital chains.