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Meddo health launches MeddoSure – India’s first omni-channel healthcare membership ‘In-clinic’ or ‘At-home’

New Delhi: Meddo Health is India’s first health-tech startup working towards organizing the ambulatory care in the country. They have taken a unique approach of reverse integration of independent OPD clinics into the Meddo fold, to turn them into technologically advanced full service digitally enabled medical centers. This approach ensures seamless patient experience integrating offline services with online offerings to deliver ‘patient oriented care’ in true sense. With the launch of Meddo Sure membership, Meddo has taken their commitment a step forward towards offering integrated healthcare services across channels including OPD consultation – in clinic or via tele-consultation, diagnostic services (at Meddo Labs or one of our other partner labs) and medicines.

Basis industry estimates, medical insurance penetration stands at less than 25% in the country. Even the consumers who buy health cover are mostly under ensured and to top all concerns, these plans mostly cover in-patient charges that need hospitalization while totally neglecting the day to day out of pocket OPD pay-outs. Therefore, an average consumer ends up spending notable amounts of money on day-to-day clinic visits, diagnostic tests and medicines. Until medical insurance programmes become more inclusive, consumers need plans like MeddoSure which are not only pocket friendly but extremely easy to avail online or offline. Meddo has served over 6 lac patients across 200 plus clinics in past 1.5 years and with the launch of MeddoSure, consumers can avail its services in a hassle-free way. MeddoSure plans are curated for individuals and families in a format of quarterly, six-monthly or an annual format, ranging from INR 999 to INR 3999. Key inclusions and advantages:

• Meddo Sure offers Free and unlimited consultations across 26 specialties including – General Physicians, Gynecologists, Pediatricians, Cardiologists, Dermatologists, ENT Specialists, Pulmonologist, Orthopedic Specialist and many more

• All Meddo Sure plans offer notable discounts on diagnostic tests and medicine delivery

• Meddo has partnered with health and wellness brands like – Fitternity, Lenskart and Mamaearth who are offering amazing benefits with each membership.

Speaking about the initiative Mr. Saurabh Kochhar, Founder and CEO, Meddo Health said, “MeddoSure is a unique membership programme which is not only comprehensive and inclusive in nature but extremely convenient for the patients to avail. Most often, medical care plans either cover tele-services or in-clinic services, but this uniquely integrated plan is valid across channels and can be availed at home at one of the Meddo clinics near you. We have also partnered with relevant healthcare and wellness brands to offer additional value to our members along with doctor consultations, diagnostics and medicines.”

Talking about the future plans, evolution and scope of MeddoSure, Mr. Kochhar added, “Medical services in India operate in silos, making the healthcare journey heterogeneous and inconvenient for patients. Meddo is an effort to integrate all healthcare services and make them efficient and seamless by adding an element of technology and digitization to ambulatory care in the country. OPD services are as critical as IPD, as this is inevitably the starting point for any patient’s healthcare journey. If the OPD space is organized and upgraded, possibility of insurance coverage automatically increases. We are working towards this goal and plan to integrate insurance services in MeddoSure offering in times to come.”

Meddo Sure membership can be availed by individuals, families and even corporates as a HR benefit for the employees.

Meddo offers free tele-consultation with COVID-19 testing, launches a marketing campaign to spread awareness

Meddo Health is a network of over 300 plus digitally-enabled full-service OPD health centres in Delhi NCR. Founded by Mr. Saurabh Kochhar and Dr. Naveen Nishchal, this new age health-tech startup is fundamentally transforming and organising how healthcare is provided in our country. They have partnered with clinics to upgrade them into full-service health centres by providing one-stop care to all the patients and digitally enabling the entire healthcare ecosystem using in-house technology and systems. To support the Union Health Ministry’s intent to achieve a higher level of COVID-19 testing, Meddo has activated its network of 15 plus ICMR authorised pathology labs which have the capability to collect and process thousands of samples daily.

Meddo undertook over COVID-19 tests earlier this year in the month of April, in line with the ICMR guidelines and has the experience of working in this space. The organisation also offered free tele-consult for consumers during the lockdown for a period of 3 months. Lauding the ministry for relaxing the testing norms, Mr. Saurabh Kochhar, Founder and CEO, Meddo said, “The health ministry relaxed the testing norms around COVID-19 last month to simplify modalities and increase coverage. This move will help release hospitals and IPD institutions of the growing pressure and is a great step towards containing community spread. A a large number of patients are asymptomatic, early detection is the key to timely recovery limiting the need for the hospital admission.”

Sharing details of their marketing campaign, he added, “While relaxing the COVID-19 testing norm was a much-needed move, many people are still unaware of this change. The flexibility offered by the Union Health Ministry to the state authorities should be spoken about in consumer circles to spread awareness and more and more digital players should contribute to home-sample collection and processing. We have partnered with one of the most popular radio channels to spread awareness and have activated our social and digital platforms as well.

Meddo resumed COVID-19 testing in August. All necessary safety precautions are being taken by the brand and its network partners to protect themselves and prospective patients so their COVID warriors may undertake their duty effectively. In addition, Meddo offers free doctor follow up teleconsultation to the patients along with the report.