# sarvastra

- **Event:** [Google DeepMind Bangalore Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/google-deepmind-bangalore-hackathon)
- **When:** Sat, Jul 11 at 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM (GMT+5:30)
- **Where:** Marathahalli, Marathahalli Main Road
- **Team:** [Yash Divya](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/sarvastra)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/yashdivya5/Sahayak
- **Demo video:** https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_U06Ob0qmR9uZvQ8a9T-LZ35Hls3VOxD/view?usp=sharing
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/google-deepmind-bangalore-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/google-deepmind-bangalore-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/27

The Problem:-

In rural and underserved regions of India, the critical "golden hour" of medical intervention is routinely lost due to a severe shortage of healthcare professionals and an unoptimized triage process. When patients arrive at understaffed local clinics or rely on chaotic tele-health lines, they frequently face delayed assessments, language barriers, and a lack of immediate visual diagnosis. This bottleneck leads to patients with minor ailments clogging up critical care pipelines, while those with acute, life-threatening conditions, such as venomous snakebites or acute coronary syndrome, are not identified or routed to specialized facilities fast enough to prevent fatal outcomes.

The Solution:-

Sahayak solves this systemic bottleneck by deploying an empathetic, multimodal AI triage assistant directly at the first point of contact. By acting as a highly observant virtual nurse, the system instantly evaluates spoken symptoms in regional dialects and analyzes live visual cues (like distress or swelling) to autonomously categorize the patient’s urgency level and route them to the correct local facility. Crucially, the system operates under a strict architectural safety boundary: it will never prescribe medication, suggest treatments, or attempt to provide a medical diagnosis. It exists solely to assess pain severity and provide immediate, comforting instructions on where to go and what to do next. This safely alleviates the administrative burden on rural clinicians, ensures non-urgent cases are handled at primary health centers, and guarantees that life-threatening emergencies trigger deterministic bypasses to dispatch immediate ambulance services, effectively reclaiming the golden hour and saving lives.

---

Markdown version of https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/google-deepmind-bangalore-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/27. Site index for agents: https://cerebralvalley.ai/llms.txt · full text: https://cerebralvalley.ai/llms-full.txt