Flydoc.in, an Aries surgery associates company is a brain child of doctors who have worked with some of the top corporate hospitals in Delhi. The idea behind creating this healthcare company was to make high end surgical procedures affordable and accessible to patients.
Patients can get access to surgeons who have trained at India’s top medical schools or have been associated with the top corporate hospitals of Delhi and can avail of their services at a hospital near their homes at a cost that could be 50 to 60% lower than that of large hospitals.
Dr. Sunit Mediratta, Consultant Neurosurgeon at Apollo Hospital, New Delhi and Co-Founder of Flydoc says, “Once a patient requests services of our specialists, our team will assess feasibility of treatment at a hospital /nursing home close to the patient’s residence for our doctors to conduct the surgery“. Patients can also select a hospital from amongst Flydoc’s empanelled list of hospitals giving them the ability to select from different price points for the same treatment by Flydoc’s doctors. Patients thus select a hospital based on their budget.
“Most of the common procedures in orthopaedics, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, gynaecology, urology and ENT can be performed in small hospitals and nursing homes. Safety, sterility and hygiene is never compromised and complex procedures are performed at designated hospitals.” says Dr Ashish Srivastav, Consultant Neurosurgeon, who has previously worked with Max and Apollo Hospitals at Delhi and is the medical advisor to Flydoc.
The Flydoc team of doctors have treated patients in Patna, Srinagar, Udaipur, Guwahati besides Delhi NCR. The Flydoc team has also identified hospitals and nursing homes in Gwalior, Bhopal, Indore and Ambala where adequate infrastructure exist to provide surgical treatment to patients, thus saving travel costs and inconvenience to patient families who wish to get treated by experienced and skilled doctors in metro cities.
Flydoc says, “It has minimal overhead costs as all its doctors work on a fee for service and it does not incur the fixed costs of running a hospital“. Dr. Mediratta adds, “Our flexible model keeps our cost structure much lower compared to that of corporate hospitals. The group also provides an additional discount of 20% on surgical treatments for patients with a family income of less than INR 3 lakhs per annum and to people of the Armed forces and their families. Our doctors have successfully performed more than 100 surgeries since inception”.
Buoyed by their early success the group has now ventured into providing home visits by specialist doctors for patients in Delhi. This division is looked after by Dr. Vibhu Bahl, Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon at Apollo Hospital, Delhi. Other services available are teleconsultations and medical air ambulance service using both commercial and charter flights.
