AI Impact Summit | 'Mother’s Diagnosis Sparked Cancer Care Mission': BigOHealth Founder Tells NDTV
In 2023, 27-year-old Gaurav Kumar walked into a leading cancer hospital expecting clarity. He walked out with a timeline. His 49-year-old mother had been diagnosed with stage IV gallbladder carcinoma. The doctors were direct. Three months, he was told. Focus on love, care and family. Speaking exclusively to NDTV, Kumar recalls the moment as one that “reduced the future to a number”. “I wasn’t just scared of losing my mother,” he told NDTV. “I was terrified because I didn’t know what to do next.” That uncertainty, he says, revealed deeper cracks in India’s oncology ecosystem cracks that would later shape the direction of BigOHealth, the health-tech venture he co-founded with his engineering classmate and co founder Shubham. Aishvarya Jain brings to you the full story.
