Vera Clinics to set up 300 plus primary smart clinics, to invest $15 million in the first phase

The company under the collaborative model will introduce the latest technology into healthcare – from digitising the health with AI-powered virtual smart healthcare tools, backed by mobile wellness hospital services in these medical institutes

Vera Clinics, the Hyderabad-based Vera Smart Healthcare arm has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with various medical institutes in the state of Telangana to set up 300 Primary Smart Clinics at these medical institutes across Telangana region, that include smart clinics, mobile units, door to door, smart health transport and multi & super speciality hospitals access, based on the health profiling in and around the radius of 300 kms.

The company under the collaborative model will introduce the latest and technology into healthcare – from digitising the health with AI-powered Virtual Smart healthcare tools, backed by Mobile Wellness Hospital services in these medical institutes.

The Company was the first and the only company to run massive mobile units covering 85 districts and 2400 towns and 2 million plus patients in the past. VERA, so far invested around 6 million, between 2020 and 2021 and has also witnessed a growth 424% Year on Year since the launch of its services in the year 2019.

Announcing the deal, founder CEO, Vera Clinics Dharma Teja Nukarapu, said “ What we aim to achieve is to ensure that primary healthcare access is at figure tips of rural through Door-to-Door diagnostics services, around the corner smart clinics, on demand mobile units are provided to the regions that surround these teaching hospitals. All these large hospitals will be backed by our technically trained healthcare staff, strategic clinics, mobile healthcare units, proprietary Artificial Intelligence technology and mobile applications.”

“Our belief is that disruptive AI driven healthcare technology is the way forward for Health Care Providers, Medical Institutions and door-to-door health care practitioners to connect better and faster to any rural patient to diagnose illnesses, fasten cure, and save lives.” Dharma adds.

Investor Kaushik Mani, California said, “Dharma and his team have had a tremendous journey of innovation and success right from solving problems for prescription medication to athletic smart body patches to  medical profile monitoring & analytics to helping a nation fight a pandemic. The truth behind that statement is the  agility with which Vera clinics is able to pivot to solve innumerable problems around us by using their existing line of products (hardware and software). Being able to navigate through different problems and come up with a single solution is a knack that is difficult to develop. But I can see that it is part of Vera clinics DNA. Looking forward to many more such successes”

Amar B Singh,  Angel Investor, New York said, “We have seen the company grow from its backyard contracts to larger contracts. The strongest elements were always vision and hard work to make the impossible possible.”

“Returns in the rural market need great performance but these guys always had a solution to move forward”, Ratish Kumar, Investor, India.

During the COVID pandemic, Vera Smart Healthcare was the frontrunner to introduce and operate a fleet of 220 buses running in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to undertake COVID-19 tests on behalf of the State Governments. It conducted 20 million tests in the twin Telugu States.

Vera’s growth is driven by increased consumer willingness to use mobility healthcare, to use the new tech by healthcare institutions and complementing regulatory changes to enable greater access and reimbursement. The growth is furthered by Investment in virtual care and digital health, fuelling further innovation and remote digital interventions.