Find my doctor launches Pakistan's first digital hospital

KARACHI: Find My Doctor, a leading healthcare startup, has launched Pakistan's first Digital Hospital. 

The Digital Hospital was inaugurated at an event held on Thursday, 20th October, at the Marriott Hotel in Karachi. Several notable personalities attended the event, including chief guests Barrister Murtaza Wahab, Shehzad Roy and Zahra Khan.

Many Pakistani citizens are barred from access to affordable and effective healthcare options due to rising healthcare costs and overloaded hospitals. In recent months, there has been a growing demand for universal access to high-quality, reasonably-priced healthcare. Increased living expenses have further exacerbated this due to inflation and the spread of diseases due to the recent devastating floods. 

Trends indicate that the smartphone penetration rate in Pakistan is at its peak, and the number of internet users is also constantly increasing. This opens an opportunity for Find My Doctor to use these technologies to help fulfil its mission of bringing ordinary Pakistanis into a healthcare net to help improve their living standards. To this end, the company has partnered up with the Karachi Metropolitan Commission to transform the abandoned and non-functional Sarfaraz Rafiquee Shaheed Hospital in Karachi into state-of-the-art digital care and health data management centre.

Find My Doctor will provide free-of-cost telehealth consultations across Karachi to any and all residents. The teleconsultations will also help the company gather vast amounts of unstructured data, which data can then be utilised by government Institutions to help better plan their healthcare spending, identify disease cluster areas, and develop more robust and efficient healthcare policies. It will also allow the healthcare industry to gauge which disease areas to focus on and help identify underlying healthcare concerns. 

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. 

Find My Doctor founder and CEO Saad Siddique commented on the launch, "This is an inspiring 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, affordable, quality healthcare to citizens from all walks of life."