All over India there is hue and cry about unavailability
of hospital beds for Covid patients , despite States directing all private
hospitals for 20 – 30 % reservation
Just few headlines :
Covid-19:
When will states run out of beds?
Everywhere, patients are saying :
We are being turned away by
hospitals, claiming they have no empty beds.
This made Delhi Government to
launch a Mobile App which is supposed to “ tell “, which hospital has how many
empty beds available . A great initiative with some “ teething troubles “, because
App shows 200 empty beds whereas hospital says, we have none !
There are wide-spread reports that
, on the sly, private hospitals are admitting rich patients who can dish out Rs
15-17 lakhs for Covid treatment !
This made me send following e-mail
to AAP MLA , Raghav Chaddha
:
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APP
FOR VACANT HOSPITAL
BEDS
Dear Raghav, [raghavchadha111188@gmail.com ]
Cc : 'moh.delhi@gov.in'
/ 'msisodia.delhi@gov.in' / cmdelhi@nic.in
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At the outset , congratulations on launching of the mobile app
which shows how many beds are available in each hospital in Delhi
In long run , this app can morph enough to transform the entire Healthcare Ecosystem in entire
country
In your interview with a journalist last evening on
NDTV, when discrepancies were pointed out, you made following remarks :
Ø Data in
respect of “ Empty Beds “ are being uploaded by each concerned Hospital
authorities personnel
Ø Very often, this
uploading gets delayed
Ø Sometimes , the
uploaded figures are being fudged on purpose
Raghav,
As long as this ( data uploading ) process remains “ manual “ , depending upon a human , what you described above , will
continue to happen !
The only
PERMANENT and FOOLPROOF solution is to transfer this process from humans to
TRANSPARENT – UNBIASED technology
Eg :
Simple CCTV cameras mounted on each bed – and laced
with a simple software which detects whether a bed is empty or occupied – and
uploading that STATUS into database, dynamically , every 10 minutes !
No big deal ! Really , extremely simple ! And neither very expensive
If you pull this off, you will set a benchmark for all
other states
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
PS :
Following report will show you how technology can be beneficially exploited :
“ Clearview AI is by far the most frightening.
Its facial-recognition app could end our ability to walk down the street
anonymously.
The user takes a picture of a person, uploads it, and sees
auto-populated public and semi-public photos of that person, along with links
to where those photos appeared.
The system’s backbone is a database of more than three billion images
that Clearview claims to have scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo, and
millions of other websites.
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Dear Dr HarshVardhanji,
To begin with, I urge you to adopt this
TECHNOLOGY-BASED solution in all Government Hospitals so that the Mobile App
launched by Delhi government “ tells the truth “ – at least as far as the
government hospitals are concerned
And when it works ( which any startup can implement
within a week ), you can recommend it to all the State Governments
Related Readings :
with regards,
hemen Parekh
hcp@recruitGuru.com /
07 June 2020
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