The Idea Behind HCAH
HCAH focuses on solving one of the major problems in the healthcare sector - the mismatch between the number of beds and doctors to the number of patients. India has only one bed per 1000 people and only one doctor per 1000 people. It is not possible to increase the bed and doctor capacity to take care of the whole Indian population in the short term. So how should we create that environment? Each tertiary care bed takes a crore rupees per bed. It is an enormous amount of investment.
The idea was to solve all these issues with minimum investment. The underlying point of view was around home consideration since home beds cost nothing. So you will have the option to increase the bed limit.
Since we work with the doctors, we knew that each doctor who is taking care of a fifty-bed ICU, only gets a restricted limit in the emergency clinic. However, if we take care of all the necessary things in the community, the doctor is free to care for more people and completely utilize his skillset. We want to transform this idea into something bigger.
The healthcare market is huge with immense requirements. We have seen these struggles during COVID, when hospitals were full. You need innovative ideas to deliver healthcare and delivering it outside of the hospital increases access and affordability, and you can deliver really great outcomes while improving the quality of life, which could be challenging in the hospital environment.