Healthcare
These tools for the healthcare sector can be used to explore gender opportunities, screen potential investments through a gender lens, and advise portfolio companies on how to better integrate gender into their operations and supply chains.
Explore how leading companies integrate gender into their operations, and the resulting business and social benefits
LifeSpring Hospitals
LifeSpring is a chain of small, specialized hospitals providing high-quality maternal and pediatric care at affordable rates for low-income families in India. Established in 2005, LifeSpring expanded to 11 hospitals that delivered over 58,000 babies by 2018. Recognizing maternal services in India are typically either high-cost private care, or free or low-cost public care in substandard facilities, LifeSpring seeks to provide female patients with affordable, dignified care.
Portea is a home health care company operating across 16 cities in India. Founded in 2013, Portea has logged in over 2 million patient visits and serves approximately 200,000 patients on an ongoing basis through its 4,000 employees. With a team of qualified doctors, nurses and trained caregivers, Portea offers services such as physiotherapy, lab tests, doctor consultations, nursing, vaccination, medical equipment rental, in-home ICU setups, prenatal & neonatal care.