Vodafone India has launched Ask a Doctor – Health@5, a first ever WAP health portal in India. With this unique service, Vodafone subscribers can ask health related queries for Rs 5 per day. The panel of medical professionals will get back to the subscriber with the answer within 24 hours.
Ask a Doctor – Health@5 also allows the subscribers to browse through information on disease management, myths, trivia, general remedies, latest updates, diet and fitness information. Questions asked by a subscriber will be archived under ‘My Questions’ section for any future reference and can also access questions posted by other users.
There are five different sections provided under Health@5. These are: Everyday health has detailed articles on interesting health topics such as diseases, myths, remedies etc; Did You Know is a storehouse of trivia and facts which help get rid of various misconceptions and myths; Medical Diaries houses interesting medical case studies and offers interesting experiences of medical cases in a story format with insights from experts and people narrating how it happened, what it feels like and why it matters etc; Home Remedies, as the name suggests, is a section with home remedies to help one handle some of the basic health challenges; Diet & Fitness Management has consolidated information across all ratified sources to offer simple ways of managing a healthy lifestyle. It also provides you key points on daily exercising, nutrition, diet, wellness and fitness.
Subscribers who want to activate, will need to send an SMS, HC5 from the Vodafone number and send it to 111 or 144. The service is on a daily auto renewal mode. In order to unsubscribe for the service, subscribers need to SMS CAN <space> HC5 to 111 or 144.
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