“The burden of chronic diseases is steadily rising in the country and in reality many patients’ chronic diseases are not well controlled with only 50% of patients evidently taking their medications as prescribed. In situations like this and many more, telemedicine has a life-saving potential,” says Dr Sudip Roy, Senior Director – Primary Care, Practo …
Launched earlier this year, Practo’s vernacular language service has clocked 30% of the total number of teleconsultations on the platform in 2021.
As the COVID-19 pandemic struck the country last year, the outcome of five years of labour at Practo slowly unfolded in the ensuing national lockdown period. Here’s the final part of that story.
In celebration of the commitment of healthcare professionals amid the COVID-19 pandemic this Doctor’s Day, we reached out to a few doctors to understand their experience better. This blog post is an attempt to capture a small fraction of their daily struggles as they put their lives at risk to care for us.