DocsApp will connect rural India to doctors within 30 minutes

According to the Medical Council of India (MCI), there are around 9.29 lakh doctors registered in the Indian Medical Register. The council assumes 80 per cent availability of doctors at one time, so they estimated that around 7.4 lakh doctors may be actually available for active service. What this means is that the active doctor-patient ratio is of 1:1674 against the WHO norm of 1:1000, especially at a time when every year around 55,000 doctors and 25,000 PG doctors are graduating from various colleges.

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This statistic is alarming for a growing populous country like India where many villages, tier-3, and tier-2 cities don’t even have sufficient doctors to meet their requirement.

The startup ecosystem is aware of this problem and we’ve seen the healthcare sector booming especially in the past year. While we might be aware of apps like Practo and Lybrate, we don’t know of an app that caters to the real problem of proximity that many Indians still face in regards to access to good healthcare.

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This is the gap that an app called DocsApp is trying to diminish by giving 24x7 access to doctors within 30 minutes of placing a request.

Not just that, the app is available in 17 local languages so that people are comfortable while talking to the doctor, online.

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‘’The app is revolutionary in the sense that we allow the patients to pay for the consultation by mobile banking, wallets or even the Mobile phone balance. We want to be World’s first online hospital’’ says Satish Kannan, CEO, DocsApp, while speaking to Business Insider.
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Currently, with 4 lakh users online and more than 1,150 doctors on its app, DocsApp might not just be saving our lives but also our time.