Activities
Planning and Direction, Others
Awards
Biography
Sandeep’s Inspiration
Sandeep Kumar, the founder of Digiswasthya, was diagnosed with Ewing-Sarcoma in 2007 (a
type of bone cancer) where his whole riright humerus boneas replaced. In the initial phase, he
wandered from one hospital to another but did not get the right diagnosis due to lack of qualified
doctors and under-equipped hospitals in Sant-Kabir-Nagar, a small district in Uttar Pradesh, a
state in India. Lack of access to guidance of what needed to be done added to the worries of
Sandeep and his family. After 6-months, he finally got a biopsy done and was diagnosed with
Ewing-Sarcoma. Doctors believed Sandeep would have become immobilized if diagnosthe is was
delayed by a few days.
In the next few months, Sandeep recovered slowly under the treatment of doctors at Tata
Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, one of India’s tier-1 cities. However, the journey from being
completely clueless as to what was the cause of his ailment to being detected with Cancer to
gradually recovering was nothing less than a miracle for Sandeep and his family. Sandeep was
determined to give back to the society and started working with multiple social-sector
organizations (health sector) since 2015. Over the next few years, Sandeep devoted himself to
work for hundreds of cancer patients, survivors, and their families, providing them guidance,
emotional support, financial support for their diagnostics, treatment, care and education.,
While Sandeep’s work created a positive impact on the lives of several patients, he realized that
his ultimate calling was to go back to the grass root and address the challenges from where they
initiate, i.e villages where there is lack of awareness ofa health issues and lack of access to
healthcare professionals. Sandeep took a break from his corporate job, and started conceiving an
idea around how leveraging technology he can address the challenges he had identified and make
primary healthcare affordable and accessible in rural areas, where more than 70% of India’s 1.4
Billion population live. After numerous interviews with people living in these areas, discussions
with senior administrators of India’s biggest hospitals, professors and government officials,
evaluating other developing nations are taking the problem, Sandeep conceived the idea of
DigiSwasthya (Digi=Digital, Swasthya = Health). Sandeep invested most of his savings till then
to establish DigiSwasthya’s 1st E-telemedicine clinic in June 2020 in his home district, Sant
Kabir Nagar.
By creating a full stack primary healthcare platform, from creating a safe and hygienic physical
space for patients to come, to hiring trained nursing staff, to tying up with doctors from
prominent city hospitals, to onboarding a tele-medicine software and hardwatelemedicineg
prescriptions fulfilled from vicinity pharmacies, Sandeep created one of the state’s 1st hybrid
medical consultation facility.
By creating a network of such standardized clinics across India, Sandeep and his motivated team
is on a mission “to transform the country'missiony healthcare system and make healthcare
services affordable and accessible for rural communities by leveraging technology”.
Language
English
Place
C/o Sandeep Kumar, Kathaicha, Nokta, Sant Kabir Nagar, Uttar Pradesh / India - 272176
