As Indians Get Busier, Home Healthcare Here To Stay

NEW DELHI: Ashok Gupta, 85, is a heart patient, a diabetic and suffers from hypertension. He hardly ventures out of his Delhi home. His only son lives in the US and there are no relatives in town to take care of his medical needs.

Zoom over to 10-year old Arvind Venkatesh in Chennai, who broke his leg in a freak accident and needs physiotherapy for proper healing.

What these two patients - living in two different Indian cities - have in common is that they are getting the much-needed healthcare they need right at their doorsteps.

Medical help at home has now become an easy and affordable service for the growing middle-class Indians who would rather stay at home and avail the best of services than go to either private hospitals or queue up at government hospitals.

Many companies like Health Care at Home India, India Home Health Care (IHHC) and Portea Medical have come up to provide all kinds of medical services from oncology to cardiac care to psychological and neurological problems at your doorstep.

Healthcare providers said the cost of the packages would vary as these were tailor-made for individual patients and depended on the kind of treatment and the period involved.

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