“Indian families combating COVID-19 are struggling to access proper care such as oxygen supply, ventilators or access to an ICU bed for their loved ones. Across the country, to find a hospital bed, our citizens are forced to call each hospital, manually find hospitals online, or place desperate appeals on social media”.
The website delivers essential and instant information on the name and location of the hospital, the availability ICU beds, ventilators, oxygen supply, and non-oxygen beds, as well as the specific time of the latest availability update, hospital contact details, hospital directions, and an advantage to call directly from the map. The website also gives instantaneous information on all accessible COVID-19 treatment centers to patients and their families, accelerates access to hospitals, attempts to decrease psychological stress of people in their moment of need, and offers instructions and traffic conditions to any hospital.
Project Madad head Raja Karthikeya also suggested that the Indian government and other stakeholders can make use of the MadadMaps.com and spread it through government channels like CoWIN or Aarogya Setu to reach the vast majority of people throughout the country. Karthikeya highlighted that the team hopes to upgrade the platform over time. He said that in addition to data from government and commercial hospitals, it is also attempting to include data from vaccination clinics and other emergency services.
