Kolkata: Just a month away from going “live” with its plans, Mission Arogya—led by four US-returned medical practitioners, engineers and social entrepreneurs with roots in Kolkata—wants to intervene affirmatively in the critical hour that stands between life and death. Untried before, their idea, christened the Kolkata Medical Emergency System (KMES), envisages a situation where a critically-ill patient finds the proper and nearest hospital bed through a Web-based updated information system or by calling up a helpline.
“For instance, if a person suffers from a heart attack, he has to be provided medical attention within 90 minutes if fatality is to be avoided. In general terms, this is known as the golden hour and here is where we will come in,” says Tanmay Mahapatra, medical research director of Mission Arogya and one of the four founders. |
