As a part of this growth, the Flipkart Group has signed definitive agreements to accumulate a majority share in Sastasundar Marketplace, which owns and operates SastaSundar.com, an internet pharmacy and digital healthcare platform, the corporate mentioned in a press release.
“The shopper web ecosystem in India is rising quickly as customers recognise the alternatives and comfort that digital adoption is enabling of their lives. With rising consciousness and concentrate on well being heightened by the pandemic, there’s a giant alternative and demand for inexpensive healthcare and ancillary choices.
“We are excited to enter this space through this investment in SastaSundar.com, a company that has established itself as a trusted partner for lakhs of consumers through genuine products, a technology-powered platform and a wide network.
“The synergies between the Flipkart Group and SatsaSundar.com, mixed with our dedication to prioritise our buyer’s wants, will assist us develop and rework on-line healthcare in India,” mentioned Ravi Iyer, Senior Vice President and Head — Corporate Development, Flipkart, within the assertion.
SastaSundar.com presents a digital healthcare and pharmacy platform supported by a community of greater than 490 pharmacies. It goals to handle the problems of entry to inexpensive and high quality healthcare in India by offering authentic merchandise from authorised sources and delivering them throughout the nation.
By utilising Artificial Intelligence and information analytics applied sciences and integrating them with private counselling by its community, SastaSundar.com supplies customers complete options for a variety of healthcare wants.
Flipkart Health+ will leverage the mixed strengths of the Flipkart Group, which incorporates its pan-India attain and know-how capabilities, with SastaSundar’s deep experience to supply customers end-to-end choices within the health-tech ecosystem. It will endeavour to provide tens of millions of Indian customers entry to high quality and inexpensive healthcare, beginning with e-pharmacy and can add new healthcare providers akin to e-diagnostics and e-consultation over time, the corporate mentioned.
Flipkart Health+ will report back to Ajay Veer Yadav, Senior Vice President, it added.
Source: IANS
