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To date, India has recorded over 17.3 million active COVID-19 cases with more than two lakh deaths. And the numbers keep growing each day.
Amidst a seething second wave, there has been a severe dearth of oxygen, hospital beds, and vital medicine essential for treating COVID patients. In fact, for healthcare workers, the pressure keeps mounting. India has a shortage of healthcare staff, with a ratio of 1:40. When dealing with a pandemic, this gap becomes overwhelming.
Mudit and Gaurav, founders of Dozee
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To help make their lives easier and also tackle the scarcity of ICU beds in hospitals,
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ACT in 2020 enabled 54 Indian startups to build solutions for fighting COVID-19. It has now expanded its focus to build solutions for healthcare, environment, education and women’s participation in the workforce. To know more about ACT and know how you can be a part of driving social change, join the ACT Summit 2021 on March 4.
In March 2020, the Indian startup ecosystem - founders and VCs came together to launch ACT, a Rs 100 crore grant to power startups building and deploying solutions to combat COVID-19. ACT focused on three main objectives - i) to provide grants to tech companies building COVID-19-related solutions; ii) to connect businesses to local, state and national governments, and NGOs for fighting COVID-19; and iii) help businesses scale up.