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New Delhi, January 17, 2025 :
ACT, an Indian venture philanthropy platform, has committed INR 8.33 Cr in catalytic grants to Khushi Baby and Medoplus; social startups that are pioneering tech-first solutions to revolutionise rural healthcare in India. Given that 73% of the country’s population struggles to access basic healthcare services, these digital health solutions are uniquely poised to bridge the access to affordability gap, bringing essential medical services directly to underserved communities.
Khushi Baby’s Community Health Integrated Platform (CHIP) is a unified digital interface that streamlines data collection, remuneration, and real-time tracking through digitised health records across primary healthcare programs. This allows community health workers to focus on caring for the communities while providing public health officials with hyperlocal insights to make informed, data-driven decisions. With a decade of experience in the state of Rajasthan, they are now enhancing and scaling CHIP, building it as an opensource Digital Public Good, to enable different states in digitizing primary care beginning with Karnataka.
“A thriving village will pave the way for a Viksit Bharat, and we deeply value ACT’s collaboration in enhancing last-mile public health systems. Through CHIP, we tackle fundamental challenges in India’s healthcare by easing the workload of frontline workers and empowering health officials to deliver hyper-localized solutions. With ACT’s support, we are focused on digitizing community-level primary care in Karnataka, impacting 40,000 ASHA workers and 12,000 health centres. Our approach, rooted in Digital Public Goods, demonstrates how government-aligned, deeply integrated solutions can drive equitable access to quality healthcare and foster lasting impact for Bharat.” said Mohammed Shahnawaz, Co-founder of Khushi Baby.
MedoPlus’s online platform connects rural patients with qualified healthcare providers, where users can book virtual or in-person appointments and tests, pay digitally at discounted rates, and securely store their medical records. They will now test a cluster-based e-clinic model that harnesses technology and a community-driven service model to facilitate doctor consultations, medicine purchases and pathology testing closer to home for over 100,000 patients in Uttar Pradesh’ Barabanki district.
“In regions where the doctor-to-population ratio is as alarming as 1:30,000, we are piloting a phygital model with ACT’s support to bridge this gap. This initiative aims to bring doctors and quality care closer to underserved patients, addressing the uneven distribution of healthcare providers concentrated in urban areas. We are very excited to have ACT as our partner in this journey of revolutionizing primary care service delivery for Bharat,” said Dr. Prakash Bakshi, Co-Founder of MedoPlus.
Krisha Mathur, Director – ACT For Health, added, “Khushi Baby and MedoPlus are transforming healthcare delivery using technology in ways that directly respond to the unique public health challenges of rural India. We’re proud to support their vision and commitment towards driving large-scale positive health outcomes and improving affordable access to health care.”
ACT For Health aims to improve access to quality and affordable healthcare by supporting digital/medtech/deep-tech innovations and focusing on deployment ready solutions in the realms of tele-medicine, health coverage, capacity building, diagnostic tests, devices and implants.
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