About ArogyaRelief
A platform built to improve healthcare coordination during disasters — starting with flood-affected communities in Assam.
The Problem We Saw
Every year, large parts of Assam and Northeast India face severe flooding. Roads get cut off, mobile towers go down, and entire villages become unreachable. In these situations, people needing medical help often have no way to reach a doctor, and doctors, NGOs, and volunteers have no organised way to find where help is most urgently needed.
Relief arrives, but it does not always reach the right people at the right time. A family with a sick child may be waiting for medicine that is sitting in a warehouse twenty kilometres away, while another camp has a surplus. A doctor volunteering at a relief camp may not know that three critical patients need referral across town.
The problem is not a shortage of people who want to help. The problem is coordination.
Why ArogyaRelief Was Built
ArogyaRelief was created to address one specific gap: the absence of a shared, real-time coordination layer connecting victims, healthcare providers, NGOs, pharmacies, hospitals, volunteers, and government agencies during a disaster.
We are not trying to replace emergency services, the NDRF, SDRF, or district administrations. Those institutions have authority, manpower, and ground-level presence that no software can replicate. What we are trying to do is make their work easier and ensure that the people most affected can communicate their needs quickly and clearly.
ArogyaRelief acts as a bridge — between the person stranded on a rooftop and the NGO with a rescue boat, between the patient with diarrhoea and the pharmacy with ORS, between the overwhelmed relief camp and the hospital that can take a referral.
Healthcare First
Medical emergencies multiply during disasters. Flood water brings waterborne diseases, injuries, and mental health crises. Healthcare coordination is not secondary — it is the priority.
Unified Coordination
Every role — victim, doctor, NGO, pharmacist, volunteer, hospital, administrator — operates from a single, connected system. No silos, no duplicate requests, no lost information.
Community-Led
ArogyaRelief works because the community is involved at every step. Volunteers report conditions. NGOs log camp capacity. Doctors update consultation status. Everyone contributes.
Our Values
Transparency
We do not hide how the platform works. Every request, every status update, every action is visible to the relevant parties. Trust requires openness.
Collaboration
No single actor can solve a disaster alone. ArogyaRelief is built on the assumption that healthcare providers, relief workers, government agencies, and affected communities must work together.
Accessibility
The platform is designed to work on basic smartphones, supports multiple Indian languages, and prioritises clear, simple language. Technology should lower barriers, not create new ones.
Community Support
We are not building for institutional users alone. The platform exists for the family sheltering on a rooftop, the volunteer with no formal training, and the local pharmacy that wants to contribute.
The People Behind ArogyaRelief
ArogyaRelief was started by two individuals who recognised that improving disaster healthcare coordination in India was not a resource problem — it was an information and communication problem that technology could help address.
Abhigyan Saikia
Founder
Abhigyan founded ArogyaRelief with the goal of building practical technology tools that address real coordination gaps in disaster response. His focus is on ensuring the platform remains grounded in the actual conditions faced by communities on the ground rather than theoretical use cases.
Manashjyoti Baruah
Co-Founder
Manashjyoti co-founded ArogyaRelief with a shared belief that healthcare during a disaster should not depend on who you happen to know or where you happen to be. His work is focused on making the platform reliable, accessible, and useful for both first-time users and experienced responders.
An Important Note
ArogyaRelief is a coordination platform. It does not replace emergency services, hospitals, police, the NDRF, SDRF, or official government authorities. If you are in immediate danger, please call 108 (Ambulance), 100 (Police), or your district's official emergency helpline. ArogyaRelief is intended to complement official disaster response, not substitute for it.
Where We Are Going
ArogyaRelief currently serves flood-affected communities in Assam. Over time, we aim to build a platform that can be used across disaster-prone regions of India — adaptable to different types of emergencies, different languages, and different local contexts.
We are committed to keeping the core platform free for individuals and non-profit relief organisations. Scaling requires infrastructure, and we are exploring partnerships with government agencies and healthcare institutions to sustain that growth responsibly.
The long-term measure of our success is not technical. It is whether a person in a flood-affected village in Assam — with a sick child and no road access — can reach the right help faster because this platform exists.
Join the effort
Whether you are a doctor, an NGO, a volunteer, or someone who wants to help — there is a place for you.