Hyderabad entrepreneur makes app to help Covid-19 patients track hosp beds

HYDERABAD: A city-based entrepreneur has developed a software to help Covid-19 patients find a hospital where a bed is available instead of running around from one hospital to another in search of a bed.
Arun Varma has developed a comprehensive communication system online which can be used effectively to direct a patient to the hospital where beds are available. “In the system that I have developed, there is complete transparency.All the hospitals — both private and government — will have to specify the total number of beds they have, occupancy at any given time and also mention when a bed has turned vacant,” Arun told TOI.

Arun says when a patient approaches a hospital and there is no availability of a bed, the patient would be directed to another hospital by the software where bed availability is there.
He said he was saddened by several Covid-19 patients having to make rounds to various hospitals and turned away after they were told that they were no beds. “That’s when I had decided that I should come up with a solution.”
He further explained that the enormity of the situation could be understood when hospitals in worst-affected countries like Italy started providing beds and treatment on a priority basis only to patients who had a chance of survival.
The 35-year-old mechanical engineer said he would offer the app that he has developed free of cost to the government. “The government authorities can take over the application,” he said.
Arun, who also did a course in entrepreneurship from IIM, Bengaluru, founded Syncrooms six years ago which was used by the hotel industry to identify availability of rooms across the country. The information pertained to 3,400 hotel rooms across the country.
“I got a feeling that something was surely not going right in February itself. Covid-19 had affected the travel industry badly,” he said.