Healthcare Radius – August 2019

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10 AUGUST 2019 | HEALTHCARE RADIUS

Health Ministry signs MoUs with

three ministries for enhanced

cooperation to end TB by 2025

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has

exchanged Memorandum of Understanding

(MoUs) with the Ministry of AYUSH, Ministry of

Defence and Ministry of Railways to strength-

en inter-ministerial coordination and efforts

towards tuberculosis-free India by 2025. Dr

Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and

Family Welfare, presided over the MoU ex-

change ceremony in presence of Shripad Yesso

Naik, Union Minister of State for AYUSH (I/C)

and Minister of State for Defence and Ashwini

Kumar Choubey, Minister of State (HFW).

“I am sure that the integrated and multi-

sectoral approach will galvanize support and

commitment from key stakeholders and seek

for their contribution towards India’s aim of

ending TB Free 2025,” Dr Harsh Vardhan said.

In a bid to address the growing challenges of ageing-

population, elderly health and well-being, Anvayaa Kin

Care, India’s leading, Artificial-Intelligence (AI) enabled,

holistic and personalised one-stop, senior care provider,

has announced its foray into Chennai and Bengaluru,

after a successful launch in Hyderabad in 2016. Since the

launch, Anvayaa has already provided Elder Care to over

800+ families.

Planning a pan-India operations, Anvayaa aims to

be the support system for ageing parents who live by

themselves, assisting in health, emergency, and daily care

• physically, and emotionally while engaging them in
  social gatherings.
  Prashanth Reddy, founder-director, Anvayaa Kin Care
  Private Limited, said, “Delivering personalised, compre-
  hensive human-centric, affordable senior care – the cloud
  based technology platform, empowers onsite workers, and
  NRIs to effectively care for their parents in the cities. The
  aim is to help people stressed, or anxious about not being
  able to look after their parents due to physical distance.”

HealthAssure raises $2.5 million in a series

A funding led by Blume

Anvayaa Kin Care forays into

Chennai and Bengaluru

HealthAssure, India’s foremost
health-tech primary care services
platform, has announced a $2.
million Series A round led by
Blume Ventures, an early stage
venture capital fund.
HealthAssure will use the funds
to augment its health-tech plat-
form, create sharper products
that serve various primary care
needs of the Indian market more
effectively including insurance
OPD products, build better data
capabilities leveraging AI & ML
and strengthen distribution.
Speaking on the occasion, Varun
Gera, founder & CEO of HealthAs-
sure, said, “We are proud to be

Varun Gera, founder & CEO,

HealthAssure

associated with Blume through

this round of funding. Blume has

established itself as one of the most

vibrant start-up ecosystems in India

and we look forward to leverag-

ing their strengths in our journey

of consumerising healthcare. We

will be infusing the funds raised in

our business to further deepen our

technology, build new products,

create a more robust distribution

network and grow inorganically as

well. HealthAssure aims to make

quality healthcare easily accessible

and affordable for the Indian popu-

lation and would continue to touch

the lives of millions of new custom-

ers over the next two years.”