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Bringing Reliable And Affordable Traditional Medical Service To Common People

Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund recently made an equity investment of INR 2.0 crore in Swas Healthcare. Swas is setting up India’s first chain of Naturopathy Clinics and Hospitals.

Swas Healthcare is a 3 year old Gujarat based venture. It is promoted by Dr Jay Sanghvi, a practicing Naturopath with more than 30 year experience, Sanjay Singh, an alumni of IIM Ahmedabad, and Swati Sanghvi, a Yoga expert.

Swas Healthcare provides professional services to traditional medicine system based healthcare centers and hospitals. It runs hospitals and clinics based on Naturopathy, Ayurved, and Yoga to treat chronic diseases like Arthritis, Kidney disorders, Liver disorders, Diabetes, Hypertension, Ulcerative Colitis, Fibromylgia, Spondilitis, Spondylosis, etc

Swas currently runs a hospital in Kutch, Gujarat and a clinic in Rajkot. The money raised from Aavishkaar will be used to set up city clinics across Gujarat. This would help Swas establish a hub and spoke model of naturopathy clinics and hospitals.

Unlike most existing Nature Cure Centres, Swas also provides treatments for lot of advanced-stage cases of chronic diseases. It has a team of qualified and experienced doctors. This helps Swas provide cost effective treatments for chronic diseases. At an all inclusive price as low as INR 300 per day, Swas perhaps runs the lowest priced for-profit hospital in the country.

Aavishkaar Micro Venture Capital Fund is a India based fund that invests in early stage and highly scalable business models. Vineet Rai, CEO of Aavishkaar said, “ Swas Healthcare is our second investment in Healthcare after Vaatsalya and we remain committed to support ventures in affordable quality healthcare .”

Sanjay Singh, Director of Swas Healthcare, said “This investment would help us take our bouquet of highly effective and low cost healthcare solutions to a much larger population. We keep prices low because for a large number of people, medically as well financially, this might be the only solution for their chronic health problems.”