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| Industry | Telemedicine |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | doctHERs |
| Founded | 2017 |
| Founder | Iffat Zafar Aga and Sara Saeed Khurram |
| Headquarters | Karachi, Pakistan |
Sehat Kahani is a Pakistan-based telemedicine company. [1]
| | |
| Industry | Telemedicine |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | doctHERs |
| Founded | 2017 |
| Founder | Iffat Zafar Aga and Sara Saeed Khurram |
| Headquarters | Karachi, Pakistan |
Sehat Kahani is a Pakistan-based telemedicine company. [1]
Sehat Kahani has a business model that responds to a societal circumstances in Pakistan whereby qualified women doctors are commonly prevented from working in hospitals. [2] They employ women doctors, who work from home, providing tele-health services to patients in rural parts of Pakistan that are short of qualified healthcare providers. [2]
Sehat Kahani is based in Karachi [3] and run by Iffat Zafar Aga M.D. and Dr. Sara Saeed Khurram M.D. [4]
Sehat Kahani was in formed in February 2017 as a for-profit spin off of healthcare startup docters. [3] [1]
Sehat Kahani delivers healthcare services in 35 rural clinics in Pakistan where female patients pay a fee to speak to women doctor via telemedicine. [2] [4] Sehat Kahani has treated over one million patients. [5] In 2021, Sehat Kahani started a pilot program that expanded their work into 60 hospital intensive care units in Pakistan. [6]
Patients are met at clinics by a nurse, who does an initial examinations before passing patient care over to a doctor, that connects by digital video link. [3] In 2017, the Sehat Kahani network included 500 doctors, of which most are contractors, and 30 are employees. [3] In 2020, another 100 doctors were added to the network. [7] Patients pay between 50 and 500 rupees per visit. [3]
Sehat Kahani was one of five winners of the Global 2021 We Empower United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Challenge. [8]
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