March 16 2016, 12.26 PM IST || Pocket News Alert
Patients can avail of a flat 15%-30% discount on more than 350 tests booked through the app
New Delhi, March 16, 2016: Pluss, the on-demand medicine and healthcare products delivery service has opened bookings for nearly 350 diagnostic tests through its Android and iOS app. The platform has tied up with labs like Labstreet in Delhi-NCR, Medyog in Bangalore and Doctor-C from Hyderabad and Bangalore. Subscribers can take their pick from an extensive list of tests at discounts worth flat 15% and up to 30%.
To book a lab test, patients must visit the Pluss App and go to the lab tests section and select the preferred test they want to undergo. Once selected, they can go to the cart and choose the particular lab from where they can do their prescribed test. Patients will have to fill their personal and booking details to confirm the order. Once they receive a confirmation call from Pluss' service partner for pre-test instructions, Phlebotomists will be at their doorstep for the sample collection free of cost and then get it processed at the chosen lab. Finally, the reports will be sent to the patient via their email ids. Bookings can be done on the app as well as on the website: http://ift.tt/1Ip7jFs
Atit Jain, the CEO of Pluss commented, "Through this online diagnostic test service, we aim to make it convenient for people to book lab tests and get them done on time in the comfort of their homes. Currently, we have partnered with just three laboratories, but eventually, we will join hands with more test labs to reach out to a wider base of subscribers."
Based out of Delhi, Pluss was incorporated in 2015 by Atit Jain, Madhulika Pandey and Tarun Lawadia after witnessing the country's largely unorganised health care industry, which otherwise is worth billions of dollars. The Pluss app offers cash on delivery services and card on delivery services that can be availed of on prior notice. Currently covering Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad and Bangalore, Pluss further adding Medical Tests and Surgical Equipment to its product categories. With the health products market expected to grow at a CAGR of 15% and touch $158.2 Billion in 2017, Pluss has placed a bet on hyperlocal delivery, envisioning emerging as India's reigning name in the healthcare sector.
Atit Jain
CEO, Pluss
Atit Jain is the CEO of Pluss, a Delhi-based on-demand delivery service for healthcare, medical and wellness needs. In his current capacity, Atit shoulders the responsibility of managing the product development, funding and strategy of the company.
An engineering graduate in Electronics and Instrumentation as well as an M.Sc graduate in Economics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Atit kickstarted his professional career with JP Morgan as a UAT Team Lead for 2 years, where he got a chance to lead a team of 5 people across 2 projects. During this tenure, he was awarded for an automation project which led to saving of 2 FTE (full-time employees) for the company. After JP Morgan, Atit joined Applied Mobile Labs as one of their core employees, wherein he learned the tactics of opening a startup. It was finally in 2013 that Atit co-founded his first enterprise with Madhulika Pandey, ‘Gigstart', an online portal to facilitate finding and booking artists for private and public events. The year 2015 witnessed Atit introducing yet another start-up, Pluss along with Madhulika Pandey and Tarun Lawadia after witnessing the country's largely unorganized health care industry. Boasting of an impressive list of investors, Atit envisions making Pluss, India's reigning name in the healthcare sector.
An adventure enthusiast by heart, Atit is a trained mountaineer, skydiver and paraglider and regards summiting 16,000 ft in Spiti Valley, jumping solo off the plane and fly time of 5 hours as major milestones in his life. When not ideating for his start-up's expansion, adventure sports, travelling, movies and reading random things on the internet keep him busy.
Pluss
Company Profile
Introducing the concept of timely medicine delivery at one’s doorstep, Pluss is an on-demand delivery service for healthcare, medical and wellness needs. Featuring four primary product categories – Baby Care, Pet care, Personal Wellness and Daily Essentials, Pluss allows the users to place orders through calls, WhatsApp or the Pluss website.
Based out of Delhi, Pluss was incorporated in 2015 by Atit Jain, Madhulika Pandey and Tarun Lawadia after witnessing the country's largely unorganized health care industry, which otherwise is worth billions of dollars. In a country where everything, including groceries and food, is delivered at the doorstep in a short span of time, the problem of timely medicine delivery remained unsolved. Apart from over-the-counter medicines and wellness/baby-care/personal care products, the trio wanted to emphasise primarily on prescribed medicines and pro-active refills. They devised a quick and handy method for ordering medicines in three steps: ‘Clicking a photo of the prescription', ‘Selecting individual medicines to be ordered' and ‘Placing the order'. Pluss eases the ordering and the speed of delivery of medicines by partnering with many licensed pharmacies providing the medicines as and when ordered. The revenue is generated by charging its partner pharmacies a percentage of every order they get through the app. Bearing in mind that medicines belong to the immediate requirement category, Pluss delivers the medicines within 1 day with the help of its own fleet of 50 delivery workers called ‘Pluss Men'.
Boasting of an impressive list of investors that include Snapdeal's co-founders Rohit Bansal & Kunal Bahl, Indian Dream Capital and Rajesh Sawhney of GSF, Narendra Singh Rawat, TA Venture Holding Limited, Roshan Abbas, and Anand Chandrasekaran, Pluss aims to expand to more than five cities by the end of 2015. Also, they will soon be adding Medical Tests and Surgical Equipment in their product categories. In the long run, the company envisions being the biggest and India's no. 1 in the healthcare sector with medicine delivery as a part of the wide range of services they are set to offer.
