An interactive cancer ecosystem
- Saathi is a cancer-centric marketplace made for Global markets with India 1st approach. Digital system, Cloud native built from scratch for the cancer patients.
- Saathi will be a one stop shop for the cancer patients to navigate through the journey (find a hospital? find a consulting doctor? find accommodation? find medicine? find health service providers? find Volunteers? find money? find rehabilitation?
- Saathi will provide relevant information & equip the patient with tools to make the right decision in the cancer treatments. It will "Create Value through Interactions" between different actors in the cancer ecosystem.
Cancer is a disease in which there is unregulated cell growth in any organ systems occurring in humans of all age groups, irrespective of age, sex, nationality, ethnicity, economic status, educational strata, geological and geographic distributions. In its presentation, it could be acute (sudden onset), sub-acute (slow onset), or chronic (long period of time). In its symptoms, it is known to present itself in the most insidious non-specific presenting symptoms like fever, diarrhoea or weight loss to the symptoms like bleeding, obstructive symptoms, growths. As a disease it has the potential to restrain a person from achieving full physical, physiological, psychological and economic potential. It’s a major concern for the patient, his/her family, the clinician, the healthcare provider and the taxpayer.
In 2018 alone, more than 784,000 Indians lost their lives to the disease while 1.15 million new cases were diagnosed. Currently, 2.25 million people in the country live with the disease. The country’s burden of the disease more than doubled in the 26 years prior to 2018, more than in any other medical discipline. It is the second biggest killer of any disease in India, behind only heart disease.
Little background to formation of SAATHI:
As an individual, each one of us (founders) have seen the deadly disease of Cancer very closely and dealt with cancer patients within the family and relatives. While going through the hassle of managing the patients we have grappled through the intricacies and understand the challenges faced by the patient fraternity.
The existing Cancer ecosystem in India currently doesn’t seem to be designed to handle such large patient base, the hospitals are struggling to handle the huge patient base and the influx of new patients. The surrounding ecosystem is quite inefficient and struggling to cater to the patient’s needs and therefore there is a need to improve efficiency in the Cancer ecosystem. Under such circumstances, different actors in the ecosystem such as hospitals, research centres, and policy makers may not give the desired level of focus and attention to the convenience of the patients. Hence we see a big opportunity in playing the role of a trusted friend to accompany the patient throughout the treatment period.
The 4th Industrial revolution has unleashed unprecedented advancement globally. AI, Robotics, block chain, IOT, quantum computing and other such technologies have provided us an opportunity to rapidly improve productivity, reduce cost, effectiveness of treatment and improve patient experience. Though there are lot of companies working on hospital centric technology, sadly enough there aren’t many companies working on patient centric technology hence we are building a company that will work for developing patient centric technologies
Why Us
@SAATHI we are building a platform that will connect all the actors in the cancer ecosystem to enable interactions that will help the patients sail through the long and arduous journey of cancer treatment. The platform intends to provide the patient fraternity with relevant information and tools for them to take informed decisions and navigate through the journey of cancer treatment. To achieve this we would utilize, leverage and optimize the digital/ societal/ financial platform currently available in the market and also bring the services of the various HSP (Health Service Providers) through a plug and model. To start with a Mobile App is being developed that will act like a companion to the cancer patients
Founders
Chinmaya Meher: Career spanning 22+ yrs of experience in Banking and Financial services industry having deep understanding of retail banking business and technologies. Strong track record of delivering operations and transformation project in India, South Asia and UAE (United Arab Emirates). Qualified PGDBA and FINTECH enthusiast (Said Business School, University of Oxford) passionate to build a platform ecosystem for cancer patients
Meena Meher: BSc (Hons.) in Zoology, diploma holder in Fashion Designing and studied painting at DIAC (Dubai International Art Centre). She is a homemaker and artist having keenness in creativity. She has participated in IITC Mumbai fashion show 2012 as a designer, currently engaged in clay jewellery making and canvas painting. Presently actively pursuing oil, acrylic, mix media painting of nature, monuments, flowers, portrait etc. In addition also doing pour painting.
Pankaj Prabhat: Pankaj is a senior retail banker turned entrepreneur. He has strong background in Business Efficiency, Branch and Digital transformation, Sales strategy and B to B sales. In a career spanning 22 years and spread across multiple industries like telecom, IT, Print Media and Banking, he has effectively managed large and distributed teams across multiple regions in India and Nepal. He has a track record of delivering transformation projects and business turnaround with significant business impact.