Portea Medical augments India's home healthcare market

 08-Oct-15, ehealth

The concept of professional, accessible and affordable home healthcare in India was virtually non-existent before the advent of Portea Medical in 2013. Few players who existed, were “mom-and-pop” stores which offered an unsophisticated “bedside attendant” service with neither the standards, reliability, accountability, medical knowledge nor the overall professionalism that underpins home healthcare in more advanced nations such as US and UK. Portea has enabled an effective continuum of care for hospitals and their patients that was not easily available, previously, in India.

Image: ehealth

“Prior to Portea, a family needed to go to several doctors and different locations to cater for geriatric care, basic primary care, post operative care, routine check-ups, and requirements such as diagnostics or medical equipment. We have consolidated the management of all of this and become an active co-participant in the healthcare needs of a family. We don’t handle emergency care and refer or assist our patients requiring this to hospitals,” Meena Ganesh, Co-Founder & CEO, Portea Medical told Elets News Network (ENN).

 Read the full article 

 Insights