Welch Allyn partners with BPL Healthcare
Welch Allyn, a leading global manufacturer of frontline medical products and solutions, announced on March 6 that it has partnered with BPL Healthcare to provide easy access for medical practitioners, hospitals and the public health system at large in India to state-of-the-art products, world class service and localized training programs.
Under the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), BPL Healthcare will serve as a Welch Allyn Master Distributor, putting the company closer to its prospective customers and better positioning it to provide innovative products that meet the growing needs of healthcare professionals in that part of the world.
“The strategic alliance between Welch Allyn and BPL provides us with a tremendous opportunity to tap into a ready and reliable network to support sales, service and logistics for our products. It will allow us to further broaden our reach in a country that has one of the largest and fastest growing healthcare sectors in the region,” said Con Hickey, senior vice president, Asia Pacific at Welch Allyn.
The e-Clinic, a concept developed jointly by Welch Allyn and BPL, is designed as a state-of-art primary healthcare centre or a family health clinic, using world class diagnostic instruments. The e-Clinic will have facilities for general health check up and will be equipped with all Welch Allyn made front-line diagnostic products and BPL made imaging products. This will also serve as a training center for doctors, medical students nurses on use of such equipment.
The e-Clinic, over the next few years will be replicated in different regions of the country. The primary goal of the e-Clinic would be to propagate the concept of a modern well-equipped clinic which will also serve as a guideline for doctors to set up their own clinics. The clinics will be telemedicine enabled in future.
On the occasion of signing the MoU with Welch Allyn, Mr. Ajit Nambiar, Chairman and Managing Director of BPL Ltd., said “BPL’s focus on diagnostic products for the point-of-care will only drive healthcare costs down and make modern healthcare facilities available to the masses.”
Source: BPL Healthcare