Shreyans Mehta, Nikhil Baheti and Saida Dhanavath, the co-founders of ‘Aayu’, received the thought via private experiences within the Indian healthcare system. In 2014, Shreyans’ father – a practising physician himself – fell ailing. The sickness hampered his motion and that saved his sufferers from getting remedy. A lot of the sufferers ready for session had been from rural areas and that’s when the considered leveraging know-how to profit these folks happened and our analysis about healthcare providers within the nation started.
The ‘Eureka’ second got here with the thought of scaling such know-how in order that it reaches each nook and nook of the nation. They discovered that there are almost 1.6 million pharmacies that cater to 50 million folks in India. Furthermore, there is only one pharmacy per 1800 folks within the nation. This burgeoning hole is felt essentially the most in small cities and cities they usually realised that native chemists may very well be a one-point contact for all of a affected person’s healthcare providers.
The duty at hand was to make these offline retail pharmacies digital and make them the last-mile entry factors for the sufferers. They believed {that a} native chemist retailer might grow to be an e-clinic with none additional value, and supply providers comparable to drugs supply, physician consultations & lab assessments for his or her clients. The sufferers wouldn’t be required to journey for lengthy distances for consultations, lab assessments and medicines.
Shreyans is from a household of medical doctors. Nikhil stayed subsequent to the largest hospital of his metropolis, and was witness to sufferers’ plight on a regular basis.
Nikhil mentioned this concept with Saida, and he, too, agreed to having unhealthy experiences in healthcare providers in Telangana.
With these discussions and experiences the conviction to construct one thing like ‘Aayu’ grew to become stronger and in 2017, ‘Aayu Chemist – Progress Ka Tremendous App’ was born.
