City based CallHealth & NephroPlus, join forces to bring ‘At Home Dialysis’!

Hyderabad: CallHealth – a customer convenience platform for healthcare needs, and NephroPlus – India’s largest dialysis center network, two Hyderabad based prominent startups in the healthcare space, announced the launch of a joint initiative, ‘At Home Dialysis’, to render dialysis services at the doorstep for chronic kidney patients, needing maintenance dialysis. An MoU was signed by CallHealth and NephroPlus, to kickstart the initiative and have initially rolled it out in Hyderabad city and will progressively foray with the service pan-India.
Dialysis patients are highly susceptible to infections and are facing immense challenges with the prevailing COVID-19 conditions, obviously, they dread visiting Hospitals based dialysis centers. Each visit takes 5 to 6 hours of their time. To help them overcome the trauma, reduce inconvenience and experience utmost safety, CallHealth and NephroPlus bring dialysis care within the precincts of their homes, says Vikram Vuppala, Founder & CEO, NephroPlus.
As part of the initiative, NephroPlus will bring its enormous expertise in dialysis care within the access for home dialysis to patients, while CallHealth will focus on customer convenience and related healthcare services. Together, they will ensure an end to end services to the patients including diagnostics, patient support, dialysis, and post dialysis care. A team of dedicated medical professionals, nursing staff, and technicians will render these services with the least inconvenience and utmost care and safety for the patients. The understanding also enables NephroPlus patients to access the virtual services of CallHealth for all their healthcare needs.
This initiative will bring a paradigm shift in dialysis care in the country. Besides reassuring the patients, this unique service will bring in great convenience at a marginally higher cost. Within a fortnight, the service will be accessible across the combined Telugu states and pan-India by April this year, says Hari Thalapalli, CEO, CallHealth
About CallHealth
CallHealth is a technology-powered healthcare company. It’s integrated virtual-and-mobility platform is one of the world’s best platform that brings “Everything about Health” to the customer’s doorstep. Powered by over 3,400 person-years of developmental effort and tested over an addressable universe of 20 million people, CallHealth’s proven and robust platform is now ready for national and global scale – aiming to serve 650 million customers, across 1000+ cities and towns, covering 35+ healthcare services.
About NephroPlus
NephroPlus is India’s largest dialysis network and operates 245 dialysis centers in 140 cities across 4 countries. NephroPlus is known for its quality focus and patient-centricity having been cofounded by Kamal Shah, a person on dialysis for 23+ years. The company was established 11 years back with a vision to enable people on dialysis across the world to lead long, happy, and productive lives. The company treats 18,000+ patients per month and has performed 52+ Lakh dialysis treatments till date.