– Healthians believes that through the implementation of strict guidelines and protocols for COVID safety inside clinics and nursing homes staff will revive primary healthcare and inspire confidence amongst the populace who seek medical attention.

Healthtech startup, Healthians announced the launch of a comprehensive service called ‘Healthians MedShield’ to facilitate the resumption of healthcare services at clinics, nursing homes, and hospitals. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only triggered a global health and humanitarian crisis, but it has also put extreme pressure on the healthcare system, the majority of whose resources remain dedicated to handling the pandemic. The impact of this pandemic on the healthcare system is far more than just disrupting regular services, people are delaying medical procedures, ignoring symptoms, availability of doctors has significantly reduced at OPD centers and many medical professionals even face the risk of losing their livelihoods. With lockdowns, increased healthcare costs, risk of asymptomatic transmission, fear of venturing out and disruption of medical services at the grass-root level, people remain reluctant to pursue elective health interventions like surgeries, consultations, health tests and other diagnostic proceedings. This crisis is taking a massive toll on the health of people and the healthcare system, and regular services must resume soon, even in these abnormal conditions.

“Healthians realises how critical it is for the country’s healthcare service providers, especially clinics, to resume operations. At Healthians, we feel a sense of responsibility towards the medical fraternity and society at large. We want to inspire confidence amongst the medical fraternity as well as patients to not postpone healthcare services due to the COVID scare. We want to help clinics resume operations and services under MedShield will be provided at a no-cost basis.”, said Deepak Sahni, CEO & Founder, Healthians.

“A strong determination to win over our fears, and an uncompromising attitude towards safety precautions will help the healthcare industry bounce back to normalcy, and Healthians is standing with the medical fraternity to fight this pandemic.” he further added.

Through the service, Healthians aims to not only kickstart the healthcare ecosystem back to life, but also win the confidence of the patients so that they don’t end up ignoring diseases more dangerous than COVID-19. The Medshield Service comprises multi-pronged processes that ensure implementation of detailed guidelines and protocols related to COVID safety, including a thorough sanitisation of the clinic premises, and deployment of a comprehensive communication kit to help manage patient conduct regarding adherence of safety norms inside the clinic.   Clinic officials will also be provided with detailed Standard Operating Procedures and guidelines for patient visit management and clinic operations in the context of the coronavirus. The clinic management will be trained to use a patient screening questionnaire and declaration form for pre-screening patients even before they arrive at the clinic. The service also includes the supply of COVID safety kits, social media communication, and SMS templates for doctors to inform their patients about the clinic’s resumption of operations under strict safety guidelines.

Since the pandemic began, Healthians has emerged as a leader in the healthcare sector in the country and has launched a myriad of services and initiatives like HPlus Corporate Shield – a COVID screening service for employees, COVID chatbot, COVID-19 drive-through, walk-in kiosks, and mobile kiosk vehicles. Healthians has been working with various state governments in facilitating COVID sample collection of over 1,50,000 samples for government testing facilities.

Established in 2015, Healthians is the fastest-growing at-home healthcare service in India with a wide range of tests and health packages and operates in over 35 cities.