Zigy, India’s first health exchange, integrated with Zigy Health Vault, a patient-controlled electronic health record system has partnered with Lifespan to make diabetes accessible and affordable in India.

This tie up will help both the companies’ cross-leverage their respective strengths in diabetic product and services space to provide best-in-class diabetic care. As part of the tie-up Lifespan products will be made available on Zigy, according to a press communique.

With over 66 million diabetic patients, India has a burgeoning diabetic population, second only to China in the world. Furthermore, more than 75 million Indians are ‘at risk’ to develop the condition due to rapid urbanization, rising obesity and lifestyle changes. There is also a lack of awareness among people with 45-55 % cases undiagnosed coupled with lack of access to quality medicines.

“Diabetes management can be expensive, but there are ways to manage it well. We are working to provide affordable specialist care within the reach of the patients. Be it our accurate and reliable glucometer with lowest-cost strips or our economical long-term diabetes care plans we take every effort possible to provide full care of diabetes and cardio metabolic disorders. The partnership with Zigy will take specialist diabetes care to a new level, said Ashok Jain, CEO, Lifespan.

Striking a similar chord, Hemant Bhardwaj, CEO, MD and Co-Founder, Zigy, said that the tie up will bring us closer to our long term goal of building a Swasth Bharat.

Technologically-enabled Zigy aims to efficiently connect Indians needing health products and services with doctors, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, diagnostic labs, and providers of wellness products and services, insurance, home-care services and alternative medicines.

Affordable diabetes care through the Lifespan - Zigy partnership will be made available in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad.