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Getting Healthy At the Comfort of Home

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Anamika Sahu, Managing EditorNothing can beat the comfort of being at home. Today we even seek to get medical care at our couch or bed. This not only gives us the home comfort but also the feeling of our loved one being around to give those extra dose of love, care and comfort adds to our early recovery. Realizing this, many healthcare providers have put their best foot forward to cater home healthcare. Though still an unexplored market in India, home healthcare market in the country will account to $10-$15 billion by 2020. Clearly a huge market for the startups and the
existing service providers to turn up to!

Some of the biggest benefactors of home healthcare are the aging adults in need of regular medical care, post-hospitalization recovery patients, paediatric patients, bed ridden patients and people who seek for regular blood tests. To maximise their reach, home healthcare service providers are partnering with various major hospitals to serve their patients better at the care of their home, which reduces the chances of any sort of infection, while also providing cost savings. With the changing lifestyle and disease patterns, home healthcare that currently circulates around services majorly including nursing care, physiotherapy, post-operative care, personalized doctor visits, IV infusion, oxygen administration, and blood tests, will further their services to offer chemotherapy, and dialysis while going deeper into the child care segment.

Looking at this growing market and the need to get healthcare at home, we have listed ‘10 Most Promising Home Healthcare Service Providers – 2017’. The list comprises of eminent names and even startups that are disrupting the segment with their sheer determination and will to change the current face of healthcare in India. We wish them luck and hope government aligns with these aficionados to offer their best without any hassle.
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