A Slow But Steady Digital Healthcare Revolution Is Gaining Momentum: 10+ Startups Trying To Change Healthcare in Bangladesh

A Slow But Steady Digital Healthcare Revolution Is Gaining Momentum: 10+ Startups Trying To Change Healthcare In Bangladesh 9/10/20
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Digital Healthcare
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Momentum: 10+
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Change Healthcare In
Bangladesh
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This offers a huge opportunity and a handful of
startups are developing technology solutions to
combat these problems. Below, we used our
internal data and few other sources to identify
some of the leading startups in the digital health
and health Tech space in Dhaka.
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As usual, this market map is not meant to be

exhaustive, there are startups doing great work in
the field that we are not aware of. If you know
one, please send to our way. While our
description of startups largely highlights their
main product (s), many startups offer multiple
products and cover multiple categories.
Companies that we covered in the market

map fall into 7 main categories:
Telemedicine: Companies in this category

develop telemedicine platforms that allow remote
health service delivery and communication with a
physician. For instance, Jeeon, a telemedicine
platform in which patients communicate with a
doctor through a local health facilitator.
Appointment Scheduling: Companies in this

category allow consumers to schedule
appointments with their physicians from their
mobile phone. One example is BD Venture-
backed Doctorola, a web and mobile platform
focused on appointment booking among other
capabilities.
Preventative healthcare system: Companies in

this category are focused on helping people to
track their health data so that they can know
about the status of their health through a cloud-
based system. A notable example includes
CMED which came out of GP Accelerator last
year.
Pharmacy Delivery: Companies in this category

have developed mobile and web platforms that
allow consumers to order prescription medicines
online. Bhalo Thakun is one of the companies
operating in this space.
Mental and female Health: This category

includes companies such as Maya, which
enables on-demand information service where
users can get advice from experts on health,

socio-psychological and legal problems.
Mother and Baby Health: This category includes

companies such as Aponjon by Dnet that sends
expecting mothers health related content and
progress report through a mobile app.
Comprehensive Health Service: This category

includes Telenor Health’s Tonic that offers a
bundle of service for a monthly subscription fee
including health content, over the phone
consultation, appointment booking, and
insurance and also soon to be launched Praava
Health that plans to offer family doctor and
diagnostics services along with ERM system and
more.
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Mobile and web
platform for
appointment booking
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and schedule
management
Telemedicine service
where Jeeon
provides local
intermediaries with
Jeeon the training and Activ
equipment to
facilitate meaningful
consultations with
remote doctors.
Started in 2015,
Telenor Health uses
mobile technology to
deliver a host of
health services in
Telenor Health (Tonic) emerging markets.
Activ
(https://futurestartup.com/tag/telenor-health/) Launched in
Bangladesh, its
flagship product
Tonic now boasts 3
million subscribers
and growing.
A cloud-based
preventative health
care service that
helps track your
CMED (https://futurestartup.com/2017/03/04/cmed-
basic health data
the-ambitious-health-tech-startup-that-aims-to-
through sensors that Activ
disrupt-preventative-healthcare-in-bangladesh/)
can be used to
consult a doctor. The

startup has a lot to
figure out yet.
Bhalo Thakun offers

online pharmacy
service where you
can order and get
prescription drugs
Bhalo Thakun
delivered. The
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company has also a
thakun-plans-to-become-your-well-being-partner/)
content component
and plans to move to
other areas of
preventative health
care.
Maya is an
anonymous
Maya (https://futurestartup.com/tag/maya/) messaging platform Activ
that connects users
to experts.
Offers an ERP based
solution to doctors
and hospitals to
manage appointment
Doctorkoi and records of
(https://futurestartup.com/2017/04/17/grameenphone- patients history as Activ
accelerator-teardown/) well as a web-based
solution to find a
doctor and make an
appointment.
Care at home
service, diagnostics
Pre-
Praava facility along with
launc
online pharmacy and
EMR
a web and mobile
platform that
connects patients
and doctors. It offers
a host of services
Jolpie (https://futurestartup.com/2016/12/11/new- including
Activ
digital-healthcare-startup-jolpie-launches-dhaka/) appointment
booking, take
services from a lab,
buy medicine,
telemedicine, care at
home etc.
connects trained
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mobile-technology
a mobile phone
based mhealth
Aponjon
service by Dnet for
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expecting and new
dear-one/)
mothers in
Bangladesh
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Stories of a few digital healthcare startups we

covered in the past few months:
Bhalo Thakun Plans To Go Big In Healthcare In

Bangladesh And Here Is How
(https://futurestartup.com/2016/11/16/how-
bhalo-thakun-plans-to-become-your-well-
being-partner/)
Healthcare is among the most potential sectors

in Bangladesh. While Bangladesh, a country of
160 million population (according to the latest
census), has achieved incredible feat in several
areas of healthcare including drastic fall of child
mortality rate (0.24%), but the country struggles
big time when it comes to innovation in delivering
healthcare, tackling nutritional problem, lack of
knowledge about health and nutrition, and
general health care problems. The country still
remains among the 57 countries recognized by
WHO in 2006 for having a severe scarcity of
trained medical professionals. According to
WHO, for every 1000 people in Bangladesh, there
are only 0.3 doctors and 0.3 nurses.
These are the problem, among others like buying

medicines online when you are busy, having
hygiene products and contraceptives with
confidentiality that you otherwise feel awkward to
buy in person, Bhalo Thakun, a part health-tech
and part ecommerce startup, based in Dhaka
aims to fix.
Aponjon-The Dear One

(https://futurestartup.com/2015/09/15/aponjon-
the-dear-one/)
“Aponjon” is a mobile phone based mhealth

service for expecting and new mothers in
Bangladesh. What Aponjon does is pretty
exciting and effective: it takes advantage of new
technology and delivers health care services to
new and expectant mother in the form of text and
voice messages through mobile phones. The
service is now available through Grameenphone,
Banglalink, Robi, Airtel and Citycell.
Maya, Messaging and On-demand

Information: An Interview With Ivy Huq
Russell, Founder and CEO, Maya
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messaging-and-on-demand-information/)
When we first covered Maya in 2012, it was a

web platform with a stated vision “to empower
women through access to information and a
shared community”. Over the past years, the
startup has evolved a lot and turned itself into an
anonymous messaging platform helping people,
regardless of gender, with on-demand expert
advice in areas like health, psychology, social
problems and legal aspects. You can get
information and advice from Maya’s pool of on-
demand experts through SMS and app, for their
premium service it takes only 10 minutes to get

an answer. To know more about the evolution of
Maya, BRAC investment, and the future of Maya,
we recently sat down with the Founder and CEO
of Maya, Ivy Huq Russell. Find a lightly edited
transcript of our conversation below.
Doctorola CEO Mohammad Abdul Matin

Emon: “We Have Grown Significantly Over The
Past Years And Are Prepared For The Journey
Ahead”
(https://futurestartup.com/2017/01/15/doctorola-
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Doctorola, the health-Tech startup that helps its

users in finding appropriate doctors via digital
mediums and call center, is now one and a half
years old. Over the past years, the startup has
evolved a lot, “we have learned an incredible
amount, validated many of our assumptions and
also found new realities,” says Mr. Abdul Matin
Emon, CEO of the company. The company raised
a new round of funding later in 2016 and added
high-profile names to its team. We recently sat
down with the CEO of Doctorola, Mr. Mohammad
Abdul Matin Emon to talk about how much one
of the earliest health-tech startups of the country
has evolved over the past years, growth and
challenges of Doctorola, how the startup is doing

business-wise and its expansion and growth plan
for 2017.
Telenor Health, Technology and Life: An

Interview With Sajid Rahman, CEO, Telenor
Health
(https://futurestartup.com/2017/04/10/sajid-
rahman-on-telenor-health-technology-and-
life/)
CEO of Telenor Health, Sajid Rahman, recounts

his early life and career, discusses the ambition
of Telenor Health, its flagship product Tonic,
growth of the company, culture and challenges
and the future of health-Tech, talks about
technology and the startup ecosystem in
Bangladesh and reflects on his management
philosophy, takeaways from his journey, how he
manages his days, and why our life requires a
certain sense of detachment built into it to make
it worth living.
CMED, The Ambitious Health Tech Startup

That Aims To Disrupt Preventative Healthcare
in Bangladesh
(https://futurestartup.com/2017/03/04/cmed-
the-ambitious-health-tech-startup-that-aims-
to-disrupt-preventative-healthcare-in-
bangladesh/)
Each year, millions of people die from

preventable diseases around the world. In 2000,
in the USA alone, where the level of awareness
about diseases exists in a substantial level
compared to Bangladesh, half of all deaths
recorded were from preventable diseases. Given
the level of education and awareness, the
statistics which is unavailable, it should be worse
in Bangladesh.
CMED, a cloud-based preventive health care

startup, aims to tackle this problem with its low
cost affordable preventative health care
technology.
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A Slow But Steady

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Bangladesh is one of the 57 countries identified New Digital Healthcare Startu

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As usual, this market map is not meant to be

Companies that we covered in the market

Telemedicine: Companies in this category

Appointment Scheduling: Companies in this

Preventative healthcare system: Companies in

Pharmacy Delivery: Companies in this category

Mental and female Health: This category

users can get advice from experts on health,

Mother and Baby Health: This category includes

Comprehensive Health Service: This category

On Deman Research | Future Startup

We have beta launched a small on-demand

The list of startups

consult a doctor. The

Bhalo Thakun oﬀers

Stories of a few digital healthcare startups we

Bhalo Thakun Plans To Go Big In Healthcare In

Healthcare is among the most potential sectors

These are the problem, among others like buying

Aponjon-The Dear One

“Aponjon” is a mobile phone based mhealth

Maya, Messaging and On-demand

When we first covered Maya in 2012, it was a

premium service it takes only 10 minutes to get

Doctorola CEO Mohammad Abdul Matin

Doctorola, the health-Tech startup that helps its

challenges of Doctorola, how the startup is doing

Telenor Health, Technology and Life: An

CEO of Telenor Health, Sajid Rahman, recounts

CMED, The Ambitious Health Tech Startup

Each year, millions of people die from

CMED, a cloud-based preventive health care

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