Back in 2007, Sandeep Yadav was 12, and a cancer patient. He recovered after a long and painful treatment in Mumbai. As a grown up, he decided to help cancer patients and so did a course on professional oncology care giving, then began working with various NGOs in Mumbai. The bone cancer survivor was in his home town near Gorakhpur for his masters, when the pandemic struck and the lockdown was announced, changing his life further. Troubled by the limited healthcare prospects for locals and how residents in rural areas struggle to get the right diagnosis from doctors, he launched a telemedicine venture and roped in 45 doctors from JJ, Hinduja, Sion and Bombay hospitals to facilitate online consultation.

In just one year, Yadav, 26, ensured medical care for 650 people, including more than 100 Covid-19 patients. His efforts also resulted in timely diagnosis of cancer in 26 people. Buoyed by the outcome of his first project, Yadav, who had been working in Mumbai since 2015, is all set to start another centre in Muzaffarnagar, UP.