GOQii, the world’s leading health ecosystem and preventive health platform announced the launch of ‘GOQii Sanjeevani’, first ever initiative to expand its preventive health and wellness ecosystem to a wider audience with integration into public health care.

As a first step towards moving into public healthcare space, GOQii launched its pilot project – Sanjeevani in the villages of Vaghadi and Charoti in Palghar district of Maharashtra which has a combined population of over 2000. This is in sync with the World Health Day observed annually on April 7. GOQii will leverage the new digital wave and provide its healthcare services at the grassroots.

The platform will address issues like anaemia, malnutrition, women’s health among other diseases. For the pilot project, GOQii has worked closely with Member of Parliament Poonam Mahajan who has adopted the villages under PM Modi’s Adopt a Village Scheme- ‘Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana’ to convert the villages into a model village.

In phase I of the project spanning 6-12 months, 500 people from Vaghadi, Charoti & nearby villages with access to smartphones will be shortlisted. GOQii will provide villagers with a Fitness Tracker and have their first face to face consultation with the health coach. They will be taught to log their food data, check sleep cycle, help understand their Health Risk via Assessment (HRA).

GOQii will also create an ecosystem with partners in diagnostics and hospital care to conduct Blood Pressure, ECG, Blood Sugar etc. at their doorstep and deliver the reports in a digital format directly to villagers and stored in the Health Locker. It has also made the app available in local language , Marathi. The chat feature has been designed to ease the communication between the users and their respective coaches. GOQii Doctors will be on board to provide timely healthcare consultation and the coaches will communicate in Marathi and Hindi.

The project will be carried out in phases across several villages and GOQii will work towards training frontline health workers to be health coaches. The company aims to start a new health revolution across the country which focuses on preventive health for people at the grass root level who have limited access to medical facilities.

 “Just as the telecom revolution, we are leap frogging in the area of health care. We will begin by leveraging technology to bring preventive healthcare to the masses at their doorstep. Through this pilot project, we will be able to improve the quality of life at the grassroots level,” Vishal Gondal, chief executive officer and founder, GOQii.

As per the rural health mission report, 700 million people live in 636,000 Indian villages and the majority succumb to curable diseases like diarrhoea and typhoid. At least 66% of rural Indians do not have the access to medicines and 31% travel over 30 km to seek healthcare in rural India.