Flipkart Health+ launches app, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Bengaluru: Flipkart Well being+ introduced the launch of the Flipkart Well being+ app, a tech-platform which permits entry to real medicines and healthcare services and products for hundreds of thousands of consumers throughout the nation. With an purpose to serve prospects throughout 20,000 pin codes in India, Flipkart Well being+ will allow straightforward and handy entry to high quality and reasonably priced medicines and healthcare merchandise, from unbiased sellers, by way of the app.

Flipkart Well being+ would profit from the experience and expertise of the Flipkart Group’s attain and last-mile provide chain capabilities, coupled with Sastasundar.com’s sturdy healthcare community throughout the nation. It goals to strengthen India’s healthcare ecosystem by enabling reasonably priced entry to a variety of medicines and healthcare services and products whereas partnering with the healthcare ecosystem when it comes to long-term sustainable well-being and social growth.

Commenting on the launch of the app, Prashant Jhaveri, Chief Government Officer, Flipkart Well being+, stated, “For the reason that COVID-19 pandemic, Indians have witnessed an amazing shift in favouring wellness and preventative healthcare and there’s an elevated give attention to well being and wellness, like by no means earlier than. We purpose to resolve the essential hole of accessibility to real medicines and healthcare services and products throughout the nation, particularly within the remotest elements of the nation which have been underserved till now. We wish to leverage know-how in a method that strengthens the healthcare ecosystem and permits it to serve prospects higher by making accessibility to healthcare less complicated even for these residing in distant areas of the nation and contributing in the direction of a more healthy India.”

The app has been designed and developed with a user-friendly interface that may attraction to prospects, regardless of their technological adeptness. With a strong know-how and logistics infrastructure, Flipkart Well being+, consistent with regulatory framework, shall allow entry to medicines and healthcare services and products for numerous well being situations together with acute and continual diseases, to extra prospects throughout India, particularly in distant places which have historically remained underserved.

To start with, the platform may have round 500+ unbiased sellers who’ve a community of registered pharmacists for validation of medical prescriptions and correct dispensation of medicines. Regardless that it’s an middleman market platform, the corporate has put in place numerous high quality checks and verification protocols, which can facilitate supply of real medicines and healthcare merchandise from unbiased sellers to the client’s doorstep. Within the coming months, the corporate plans to onboard third-party healthcare service suppliers who will provide different value-added healthcare providers like teleconsultation and e-diagnostics to the shoppers.

Initially obtainable on the Android Play Retailer and will probably be made obtainable on iOS in future, the app could be accessed on low bandwidth as effectively, making it accessible to prospects throughout the nation.