: After Losing Leg In Accident, UP Man Helps Small Towns Get Access To Big Hospitals #IndiaNEWS #Health Care In 2008, when Ayush Mishra was in his first year of college, he was riding pillion on a bike

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After Losing Leg In Accident, UP Man Helps Small Towns Get Access To Big Hospitals #IndiaNEWS #Health Care
In 2008, when Ayush Mishra was in his first year of college, he was riding pillion on a bike with his friend to their university in Jaipur. On the highway, a drunk truck driver rammed into the bike. “It was a terrible accident,� Ayush recalls. “I was left with the truck on my leg as the driver ran away. Those who stopped to help brought the truck driver back somehow, and asked him to move the truck off my leg. �
Ayush was first taken to a government hospital in Jaipur, where his parents arrived from Bareilly. They took him back to their hometown, but by the time he arrived in the city, his condition had worsened. “I slipped into a coma and the doctor who was treating my leg realised that a lot of infection had built up because of the negligence of the government hospital in Jaipur,� Ayush tells The Better India. “He told my parents that I might not survive if I didn’t receive proper care and asked them to take me to Delhi. �
He adds, “When you’re in smaller towns and cities, you often hear — ‘take them to Delhi or Mumbai’ or any big city that has better healthcare infrastructure. My father thankfully knew someone at Apollo Indraprastha Hospital [Delhi] at the time. But when an incident like this happens in small towns, there are many questions posed. For example, where in Delhi or Mumbai do you take the patient? What would be the cost? How much time will this take? How do you take them to the city in the first place? In my case, it’s not like I could just be put in a car, since I was in a coma. �
Luckily, the surgeon at Apollo guided Ayush’s father accordingly. Ayush remained in the hospital for around 90-100 days, underwent around 20 surgeries and was on the ventilator for 17 days. He lost his leg but managed to slowly recuperate. However, even after he started on the road to recovery, he’d have to frequent between Delhi and Bareilly for follow ups. He eventually recovered fully, returned to college and finished his engineering degree. But one thought always remained with him.
What if his father didn’t have any connections at Apollo? Would he have survived?
It was this incident that sparked the idea of trying to bridge the gap between people residing in Tier II and Tier III cities and quality healthcare provided in Tier I cities. In 2018, Ayush founded Tattvan E-Clinics, which is a tele-medicine venture that connects people in rural areas with doctors in urban cities for timely and adequate healthcare.
The idea of starting Tattvan came about after Ayushs life-changing accident, in which he lost a leg due to medical negligence and delayed treatment (Source: Ayush Mishra)
Making ‘the best’ doctors accessible
“We set up our first clinic in Bareilly in 2018 but we realised that while it’s a Tier II city, there is still some availability of surgeons and physicians.

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