Specialty Clinics

Gastric and Cardiac are the fastest growing health concerns in India: Practo

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min read

Asia’s leading healthcare platform - Practo has released its annual healthcare findings – The Practo Healthcare Map of India 2015. Aimed to highlight the key healthcare concerns, the annual report highlights the fastest growing concerns to enable the healthcare industry focus on the illness types that ail the largest population of the country to address ...

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Online retail will consolidate distributed services & be a great value addition: Care24 founder

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min read

Mumbai’s rapidly growing home health care platform- Care24 was founded by IIT alumni Vipin Pathak, Abhishek Tiwari, Garima Tripathi and Pranshu Sharma to make healthcare easily accessible and affordable to all. In an exclusive chat with WI Bureau, Vipin Pathak, Co-Founder of Care24 shared some undisclosed facts about his venture, future plans of expansion and ...

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Small towns offers big business for Home healthcare Monitoring: Omron India MD

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 8 min read

Japan-based health monitoring products manufacturer- Omron Healthcare entered Indian market in  2010 with a wide range of healthcare products including home usage blood pressure monitors, blood glucose monitors, nebulizers, body composition monitors, pedometers etc,. The company, which also brought hospital usage blood pressure monitors to the country, is expecting to clock sales of $18.8 million ...

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I want to open 2000 Lifespan clinics: Ashok Jain

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min read

Tell us in detail about your journey from inception till now?The idea came when I was diagnosed with diabetes 22 years back. In 1995, I was pronounced a diabetic with a reading of 429 mg/dL. Eighteen years of struggle and discoveries inspired me with a vision of Lifespan Clinics which would cater to all diabetes ...

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Dr Lal PathLabs: Different aspects of a growth story

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min read

Just a year ago, Dr Lal PathLabs went public with its IPO and registered huge growth within days. The pathological lab chain has been growing at a CAGR of 20 per cent, expanding to newer markets each day. “It’s important that you are on a treadmill where the company grows continuously whether it is by ...

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Online doctor consultations on a high post demonetisation

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min read

Demonetization is a progressive boost to India, its businesses and its people in the long run. A more stringent series of actions are poised to be undertaken which could kill corruption up to 90 percent, curb black money menace and bring down inflation thereby helping every individual understand the value for money. The affordability to ...

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How CeMast is filling the training gap in Indian healthcare

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min read

As India braces to be the healthcare capital of the world over the next one decade, CeMAST (Center of Excellence for Minimal Access Surgery Training) in Mumbai has set the tone as the world’s first centre offering training in 11 specialities for Minimal Access Surgery. All other centres across the world offer training in two ...

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Early male baldness to rising pollution: Changing dynamics of Indian healthcare in 2016

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min read

As a leading healthcare platform committed to providing the highest quality medical services, Dalmia Medicare has collated its annual trend report encapsulating the dynamics in the Indian healthcare segment. The report identifies four key insights which have been detected by a set of doctors and analysts based on a sample size of 2,00,000 diagnostic tests ...

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Pollution and unbalanced lifestyle hampering health and well-being of people in Delhi

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min read

As the world is alarmingly suffering from chronic diseases related to growing pollution, unbalanced lifestyle and increasing stress level, Delhi NCR is also no more untouched from these diseases. Cosmetic lifestyle, depriving air quality and over stress have been severely hampering the health of men aged between 25-40 and women aged between 35-45. Thus, studying ...

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Latest innovative treatment options for Heart Failure in India

Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min read

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of mortality, accounting for more than half of the 6 million deaths resulting from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in India. The group of diseases referred to as CVDs include heart failure, angina, myocardial infarction or heart attack, peripheral vascular diseases and sudden cardiac deaths.Heart Failure – A deadly CVDHeart Failure ...

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