Portea Medical, India’s largest outside-of-hospital consumer healthcare brand, announced its collaboration with Capgemini in India to provide various healthcare services during the pandemic. The highlight of this initiative is that Capgemini is covering the medical cost of the home care for both its employees and their dependents for 10 days isolation and additional 7 days extension if there is a prevalence of further symptoms. The COVID-19 isolation at the home special package for Capgemini includes doctor teleconsultation, follow-up calls, nutrition consultation and planning, and more.

In addition to this ‘at home special package’, Capgemini employees can choose to avail additional services on a pay-per-use basis that includes renting or buying medical equipment, nurse or doctor visits, investigations and other home care services through the end of the year.

Portea has been delivering consistent, high-quality patient care in various parts of the country. The company has catered to over 1.5 million patients in their home environment offering an extensive range of services for chronic diseases, elderly care, post-surgery care, diabetes management, chemotherapy at home, and other diseases or injuries requiring long-term care.

Under Portea’s Home Isolation Programme with state governments, 50,000 patients have been monitored, and over 45,000 patients have been successfully discharged with less than 3% shifted to hospitals from home isolation. Portea has been experiencing a 97% recovery rate at home and has also done over 15,000 doctor consultations for patients in the last few months.