pernem dr sunitamaheshwari and her husband who is also a medic had no clue that their homecoming from usa to bangalore would result in the setting up of a multimillion dollar healthcare business the accidental millionaires have been featured by forbes for their courageous turning down of an offer to buy off the business idea in its infant stage by a company for one million dollars and then turning the enterprise into a success maheshwari who was at morjim to share her business acumen at the twoday entrepreneurship event the goa project spoke about the urgent need to make up for the lack of doctors in the interiors of india through telemedicine the doctor who has introduced the interface between doctors and rural indians through technology as an attempt to give back said that telemedicine is not replacing real doctors but is helping out where no doctor wants to tread a large number of people in rural india today will travel several miles by buses and trains to get diagnosed by a doctor we wanted to give back and through telemedicine we got the doctors in urban areas to diagnose illnesses of villagers through technology and the villagers did not have to travel maheshwari said stating that there were a lot of people who discouraged the couple from venturing into the area where the interface takes place through primary health centres for the residents of rural india a person who cannot touch you or listen to you face to face is not a doctor but we have changed that we now have a 25 return rate to the telemedicine clinics in todays world we need pushers and our country needs it more than any other in our country you need to give and give more the medical care expert reminded the cross section of audience from across the globe dr maheshwaris teleradiology solutions is a company that receives patient scans from around the world to which medical transcription is provided from bangalore by the company to clients across continents when we started out a company offered us one million dollars and we asked why would you want to buy a company with one doctor and one computer our buyer told us that he wants our idea we thought it over and then finally turned down the offer if you have an idea and if you think it will work stick to it we have 400 employees today she said