QUESTION 1
A pool of newly qualified doctors are not satisfied with their existing revenue and decide to set up an individual on-call night service i.e. the doctors will go to the patient's residence to consult the patient. It is considered that they will need a centralised booking system. The escritoire will then allocate a request for intervention to a doctor who will then go to the patient's house for a consultation. The doctor may also recommend and give medicines to the patient. The patient will then pay the doctor in cash or by credit card. The approximation costs are: Capital costs: Rs 2,000,000 (for purchase of equipment, cars and other logistics) recurring costs: Salary: Rs 150,000 per month Travelling costs: Rs 50,000 per month The guesstimated revenue is Rs 10,000 per day. The service is expected to be operational round the clock every day all through the year.
(a)Carry out a technical feasibility for the project.
(b)Does the project seem to be cheaply feasible?
(c)On what restrictions are the economics of the project based?
(d)How responsive is the project to small changes (10%) in these parameters?
(e)State any TWO items which could have an impact on the economic feasibility of the project and which have been ignored in the above case.
(f)Declare TWO operational risks which could affect the project after its implementation.
(g)Measure the exposure to these risks.
(h)What would you do to lessen these risks?