MUMBAI, 24 JUNE, 2020 (GPN): To assist organizations in ensuring the complete safety of employees and workplaces in the COVID sensitive environment, India’s largest digital healthcare platform, MediBuddy-DocsApp provides 360° support with MediClinic. As India prepares to return to business and workers prepare to trickle back into the office, there are multiple questions with regards to its safety of the employees and how to keep COVID at bay.

Many companies have resumed working from offices and it has become especially important to have a handy guide on how to keep yourself and everyone else around you safe from a potential risk of the COVID during these times. With a Phygital approach of web-based MediClinic tool and onsite health clinics at footsteps of organizations- MediClinic is well equipped to be at the forefront, to ensure the safety of employees. MediClinic has access to medical manpower- specialists, doctors, paramedics, nurses and emergency care.

MediBuddy-DocsApp helps organizations across all stages & provides solutions to issues like

• Who should be allowed to go to the workplace?
• How to ensure on a daily basis that only ‘safe’ employees go to the office?
• During a workday, how to ensure the safety of all present?
• What specific medical support and social distancing norms can be put in place on a day to day basis?
• How can the corporate support employee in ensuring that her/ his home/ family is as safe as can be?”

MediBuddy-DocsApp assists over 260+ organizations with MediClinic in getting “Back To Workplace” to ensure the structure and system that is put in place and best addresses the needs of the ‘COVID sensitive environment’ we are in.  To create a safe & COVID sensitive environment, MediBuddy-DocsApp ensures 360° medical support by covering 3 major aspects – 1) Pre-reaching Office Stage, 2)  At the Office and 3) Back at Home.

“What is most important for us is to get people safely back to work and that will be possible only when we can provide the best possible healthcare, as there cannot be a lockdown on medical care, ever. But the challenge is no corporate, small or big, is really sure what measures are to be taken and how are they to be implemented, that is where MediClinic steps in- a one-stop expert who can deliver end to end solutions, from consulting, advising to execution. We at MediBuddy-DocsApp are doing our bit and it is clear that all of us have to work together to fight humanity’s newest foe” said Mr. Satish Kannan, Co-founder & CEO, MediBuddy-DocsApp.

MediClinics also serve as collection centres for Pathology tests and have Pharmacy Pods. With Pharmacy Pods, MediBuddy-DocsApp brings pharmacy right to the office campus where one can book, purchase, and collect their medicines. MediBuddy-DocsApp also provides consumables support for the supply of PPE to multiple corporates & helps employees in getting COVID tests right at home

MediBuddy-DocsApp has curated a list of guidelines of measures, which depending on the particular work situation, can help employers achieve an appropriately safe and healthy work environment. These strategies which when, carefully applied, can go a long way towards keeping the disease at bay. ENDS

CEO PROFILE:

Mr. Satish Kannan, Co-founder & CEO, MediBuddy-DocsApp

Satish Kannan is a pioneer in the online healthcare industry. With a singular focus to bring a paradigm shift in the healthcare industry, he has, in a relatively short period of time, ushered his organization to a leadership position. He is well on his way to achieving his goal of making high-quality healthcare accessible to everyone across the nation. Satish Kannan or SK as he is popularly known is an alumnus of IIT Madras – B.Tech & M.Tech in Electrical engineering. After completing his education, SK started his career with Philips Healthcare, being involved with Research and Development on specialized equipment, used by cardiologists for conducting surgeries. 

Post that SK began his leadership journey by co-founding DocsApp (a 24×7 online doctor consultation platform) to make high-quality healthcare accessible to over a billion people in India. SK is now at the helm of affairs of the vastly expanded entity of MediBuddy-DocsApp as Chief Executive Officer. 

SK’s achievements have been acknowledged by Forbes – he has been featured in the Forbes 30 under 30 list, 2017 (Asia) and Forbes 30 under 30 list, 2018 (India), for his contribution to the Indian health-care sector.

When not focused in transforming the healthcare sector, the former IITian loves to read books, travel and practice yoga.Ends