I love what I do, and I feel guilty if I’m not always available. I have mixed emotions. I also feel exhausted and ambushed. Is this really happening?” sighs Radhika Bapat, a slight young woman, her thoughts restlessly vacillating.
In other times, these are questions that she would have been fielding to help others battle their anxiety and fear. But for the first time in her career, Bapat, a clinical psychologist, found herself experiencing the same emotions alongside them.
One of the hardest parts of being a therapist in high demand during the pandemic has been the parallel experience of helping too many clients cope with crises that they have been going through themselves.
Practo recently launched online consultations in 15 Indian languages to break the barrier between patients and doctors. If you'd like to be a part of Practo's growth journey in India's healthtech space, these job openings may be for you.
This development comes at a time when the
company recently announced its ‘Corporate Suraksha’, a corporate vaccination programme for companies across India. As a part of this initiative, corporates will be able to enlist their employees and their family members for COVID-19 vaccination.
“Over
500 corporates have expressed interest in joining the programme in the first phase. Practo will be setting up camps and working with its strong network of hospitals, vaccinators, and supply chain companies among others in the healthcare ecosystem, to initiate the drive. In the coming days, vaccination programmes will be run at hospitals while special camps will be set up at corporate offices in 30+ cities across the nation,” the company said in a statement.
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The COVID-19 outbreak has given the much-needed impetus to the Indian digital healthcare sector, especially to digital health companies. However, the question remains if the growing telehealth services are reaching remote areas of the country and ensuring seamless healthcare access to all.
According to a December 2020 report by the
Telemedicine Society of India (TSI) and healthtech giant Practo, non-metro cities recorded a
growth of 7X in online consultations between March and November 2020 compared to 2019. It also revealed that the metro to non-metro ratio for online consultations stood at 60:40 in 2020, as compared to 75:25 in 2019.
As the need for digital health services increase, telemedicine players are focusing on ensuring better reach in rural regions of India, boosting the growth of the industry. Chandigarh-based
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It took a pandemic to realize the potential of telemedicine and e-pharmacies as a technological revolution in the healthcare space. After years of being under a regulatory quagmire because of lobbying by brick-and-mortar pharmacies, the segment witnessed a massive shift as India went into a lockdown in March to curb the spread of covid-19.
There was a radical change on four fronts that prompted the adoption of these platforms, according to Prashant Tandon, 1MG founder and chief executive officer.