Flipkart Group today announced the launch of the Flipkart Health+ platform that enables access to medicines and healthcare products from independent sellers. It already claims to serve customers across 20,000 pin codes in India
Flipkart Health+ app is basically a marketplace and already claims to have 500+ independent Sellers. The company claims to have various quality checks and verification protocols to make sure only genuine medicines and healthcare products are sold through the platform. The platform lists a wide range of medicines and healthcare products along with services.
Commenting on the launch of the Flipkart Health+ app, Mr. Prashant Jhaveri, Chief Executive Officer, Flipkart Health+, said, “Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Indians have witnessed a tremendous shift in favoring wellness and preventative healthcare and there is an increased focus on health and wellness, like never before. Through Flipkart Health+, we aim to solve the critical gap of accessibility to genuine medicines and healthcare products and services across the country, especially in the remotest parts of the country that have been underserved until now. We want to leverage technology in a way that strengthens the healthcare ecosystem and enables it to serve customers better by making accessibility to healthcare simpler even for those residing in distant areas of the country and contributing towards a healthier India.”
All the orders above Rs. 250 will get free shipping otherwise there will be a shipping charge of Rs. 50. You can cancel the order before a seller processes it.
Flipkart acquired SastaSundar.com last year. Now the company has revamped that platform to launch Flipkart Health+. On Flipkart Health+, you can still see the mentions of SastaSundar in several places. Along with medicines and health-related products, The platform also offers several health and fitness related articles and videos by experts.
For now, the app is only available for Android and will soon be available for iOS. The app claims that it also works fine in low bandwidth.
