How is your business helping to solve the health, social, or economic challenges created by COVID19?
The Covid-19 pandemic has made access to quality healthcare harder than it already was for those living in rural India. Karma’s nurse-assisted tele-health model allows those who are unable to see a doctor because of the pandemic to access expert medical care through a contactless service. We have extended our technology platform to hospitals, NGO partners, individual doctors, and others so that they can in turn provide essential health services to Covid-affected communities. Our system also provides counseling support to address panic, misinformation, and lack of information about the pandemic. Our remote symptom screening alerts patients with potential Covid-19, who can be referred to the right healthcare facilities to avoid delays in diagnosis, treatment and necessary quarantine measures. We have also built capabilities to provide contactless delivery of medicines within the reach of our existing 25-clinic network. Our teams have distributed free masks, sanitizers, free ration and other essentials in the communities where we workDuring the pandemic we have done over 2000 contactless consultations on our updated technology system and we provided tele-counseling services to over 6000 households. We expect to serve about 100 individuals daily through our 24 hours helpline. With further funding support, we can ramp up our capacity by 3x and serve ~300 individuals everyday, reaching a total ~54,000 beneficiaries in a span of 6-months.
Does your business contribute most to recovery, response, or resilience?
Resilience - we're improving the broader infrastructure for responding to pandemic outbreaks.,Response - we're responding directly to issues caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
What is the stage of your product development?
I have a market ready product/service. I have sold to customers.
What strengths does your team bring? Include skills and personal experience with the problem.
Our team has a diverse range of members from the public health, medical, paramedical, technology, finance and business management sectors. The uniqueness of our team lies in the amalgamation of these technical, technology-oriented, and service-minded staff members who are able to shape our distinctive tele-health platform. Our core team has a total of 70 members with 20 doctors, 30 nurses, and 2 managers; and 3 out of our 4 senior management team are women. We also bring consultants and interns on board as and when needed.
What countries do you operate in?
India
Is your company headquartered in a US "Opportunity Zone"?
No
