Dr Rohit Sharma: On a mission to upgrade medicine for billions
Dr. Rohit Sharma is a qualified physician and a healthcare entrepreneur who is focused on revolutionizing the healthcare industry in India
Dr. Rohit Sharma, the Founder and Managing Director of GRAINPAD Private Limited, is on a mission to make sure that everyone has access to quality and genuine medical information whenever they need it. His healthcare startup, GRAINPAD, is currently developing a virtual physician for all.
“Majority of Indian population still has no option but to go to a local pharmacist, or even worse, quacks and other unlicensed practitioners, for medical advice. Lack of genuine information about their health and delay in getting the right advice can be fatal if not detrimental in most cases. This is what we aim to address through our company and its products,” say Dr. Sharma.
After earning his MBBS degree from Govt. Medical College, Faridkot, Punjab, he worked in Government and Private Hospitals for almost 3 years. He also managed his private practice for several months before initiating his own healthcare startup, GRAINPAD. He is currently undertaking an Entrepreneurship Programme from IIM, Rohtak, as he aims to establish his venture as a successful and self-sustaining business.
“More than half of the medical practitioners in India do not have any medical degree or license. Still millions of patients visit them every day simply because they have nowhere else to go. There are real life issues of access and affordability for the common man and we have invented a solution for this problem. We Invented a Virtual Physician named ‘ZINI’, that uses the power of AI and Machine learning, so that everyone everywhere can have access to correct advice whenever they need it,” says a visibly excited Dr. Sharma.
Dr. Sharma has every reason to be excited as ZINI is, in fact, an amazing product in the making. ZINI can literally figure out what could be the reason for those symptoms and then guides the patient accordingly. She tells the patient what they should do next and how serious could their condition be.
This could be a revolutionary technology for a densely populated country like India, which has just one doctor for every 10,926 citizens as per the country's current population estimate of 1.35 billion. With millions of our countrymen living in the interiors with no qualified medical practitioners nearby, an App like ZINI can work wonders and may emerge as a key technology that even the government could use to provide in the coming years.
