pandemic swept the country, the 240-bed covid-19 hospital under his jurisdiction was overwhelmed. Ill-equipped hospitals with few paramedics and fewer specialist doctors made things difficult.
Scared and unwilling healthcare workers shied away from tending to covid-19 patients. Their fear of infection made it worse.
Mortality was high. “We couldn’t do much," Ramachandran says. This year, as the second wave raged, the Bidar district hospital was better prepared. “We handled it better.
Our mortality rate was lower," he says. What changed? Last August, the information technology (IT) secretary of Karnataka suggested Ramachandran seek help from CloudPhysician, a healthtech startup whose digital platform RADAR connects remote ill-equipped