Healthwire, Pakistan’s top-ranking fully incorporated health-tech startup, raised $3.3 Million to fuel the “Quality Healthcare for All” vision. The round saw participation from 47 ventures, Habib Bank Limited, angel investors from Silicon Valley and Dilsons Private Limited.
Healthwire with the aim to make quality healthcare available and affordable for every citizen of Pakistan, was founded by Hamza Iqbal who is a LUMS graduate. Since day one the institute is primarily focusing on digitizing the operations of hospitals, clinics, doctors, pharmacies and labs now brags the largest and most widely integrated platform of thousands of health care service providers in more than 60 cities of Pakistan.
“The patient-doctor interaction is the point where the whole healthcare ecosystem converges. By having this interaction on our health-tech platform, we can ensure that quality healthcare is accessible to patients in the remotest areas of the country. The economies of scale of the tech platform allow us to ensure that this access is affordable and inclusive,” said Muhammad Nabeel, the co-founder and CTO of Healthwire.
Director of Dilsons Private Limited, Hassan Sheikh, while commenting on their investment in Healthwire said: “Dilsons strategy to invest in Digital Healthcare fits well with integrated solution provider Healthwire. This gives us an opportunity to be part of Digital Health ecosystem which will shape the future of health tech. This partnership will enable us to be a part of Pakistan’s leading digital healthcare platform for disease management with strong capabilities and eventually leading to better healthcare outcomes for patients.”
Now for the ease of its consumers, this health tech startup has launched a mobile and web application for patients to connect with those service providers. The platform is already connecting over 10,000 patients with doctors every single day. The startup intends to use the funding to further expedite its growth and become the healthcare super app of Pakistan.