AIIMS Bilaspur launches ‘Aapat Setu’: 14-year-old’s digital emergency platform set to save lives amid natural disasters

July 1, 2026
The innovation has been developed by Darsh Verma, a 14-year-old student of DAV School, Bilaspur, and son of Dr. Dinesh Verma. Inspired by challenges observed in emergency healthcare, Darsh designed the platform to address delays in treatment caused by the absence of timely medical information when critically ill patients are referred from district and regional hospitals to AIIMS.