Karachi, 20th October, 2022: Find My Doctor, a leading healthcare startup, has launched Pakistan’s very first Digital Hospital.
The Digital Hospital was inaugurated at an event held on Thursday, 20th October at the Marriott Hotel in Karachi. The event was attended by several notable personalities, including chief guests Barrister Murtaza Wahab, Shehzad Roy, and Zahra Khan.
Many Pakistani citizens are barred access to affordable and effective healthcare options due to rising healthcare costs and overloaded hospitals. As such, there has been a growing demand for universal access to high-quality, reasonably-priced healthcare; this has been further exacerbated by rising inflation and increased living expenses, and the spread of disease due to the recent devastating floods. At the same time, trends indicate that smartphone penetration rate in Pakistan is at its peak, and the number of internet users is also constantly increasing.
This has created an opportunity for Find My Doctor to use these technologies to help fulfill its mission of bringing common Pakistanis into a healthcare net to help improve their standards of living. The company has partnered up with the Karachi Metropolitan Commission to transform the abandoned and non-functional Sarfaraz Rafiquee Shaheed Hospital in Karachi into a state-of-the-art digital care and health data management centre.
Find My Doctor will provide free-of-cost telehealth consultation across Karachi to any and all city residents. These teleconsultations will also help the company gather vast amounts of unstructured data, which can then be utilised by government institutions to help better plan their healthcare spends, identify disease cluster areas, and develop more robust and efficient healthcare policies. It will also allow for the healthcare industry to gauge which disease areas to focus on and help identify underlying healthcare concerns within society.
Commenting on the launch, Find My Doctor founder and CEO Saad Siddique said, “This is a really exciting and important milestone for us. From our inception, our mission has been to use technology to enhance and improve Pakistan’s healthcare system. The Digital Hospital brings us one step closer to providing easily accessible and affordable, quality healthcare to citizens from all walks of life.”
Find My Doctor is on a journey to use cutting-edge technology to revolutionise Pakistan’s healthcare industry. The healthcare startup seeks to make high-quality medical treatment accessible and affordable through its team of qualified Pakistan Medical Commission-verified specialists.
