• Aakash Rokas       16 May, 2023
• 05 April, 2023
• By EZShifa

EZShifa – Making Healthcare Affordable

In America, one million citizens file for bankruptcy due to medical bills. In Pakistan, one hundred million people suffer financial stress due to medical bills. The financial stress pertains to selling the only house, pawing wife's jewelry, closing the business, etc. Increasing medical stress on the individual adversely affects the country's real growth. This stress, in return, affects the health of more people, causing blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack, stroke, and other chronic diseases.

Taking already existing conventional healthcare to the population that needs more primary healthcare amenities requires a lot of effort and investment. Healthcare is out of the reach of common people in Pakistan and many third-world countries. There are different barriers between the majority of the population and healthcare facilities. There are two-sided cost barriers in healthcare, one on the patient's side and the other on the provider's side.

How is EZShifa Making Healthcare Affordable?

Doctor's Consultation Cost

EZShifa has solved the most fundamental affordability problem by offering telehealth facilities at reasonably lower rates through EZShifa APNAA Doctor Kiosk. EZShifa provides the most economical healthcare by reducing the physician consultation fee [Rs 200 to Rs 500 per visit], bringing healthcare to patients [patients don't have to travel], prescribing generic medications, and adding non-invasive diagnostics to kiosks and passing the savings to patients. All four major healthcare cost contributors have made healthcare affordable for all.

Diagnostic Cost

Traditional diagnostic methods cost high due to different tools and apparatus involvement. EZShifa involving artificial intelligence in the diagnosis process has cut the cost of investigating the cause of illness. EZShifa provides non-invasive diagnostics to patients without burdening them with unessential tests.
Affordable and accessible quality healthcare is also a step toward early diagnosis of the symptoms of any chronic disease, trying to upsurge in a patient coming for basic health issues. Early diagnosis will make them cautious, and they can avoid that by prevention. Hence, it will erase a huge burden from the shoulder of poor citizens.

Medicine Cost

EZShifa's doctors are also prescribing generic medications whenever possible. This strategy is taking another bite out of the healthcare cost. EZShifa connects patients to doctors remotely for their primary health issues. Our doctors prescribe medicines that are easily available in the market and are low in price and do not advise expensive medicine for basic issues. We are also offering discounted medicine through EZPharmacy. Patients can also buy medicine at a discount from our designated pharmacies linked in our cluster.

Traveling Cost

One of the biggest expenses of healthcare is the 'travel' to get to healthcare. EZShifa's shift in paradigm, instead of patients' going to healthcare, bringing healthcare to the patient, solves the travel issue and the expense associated with it. Reducing traveling costs for the patients and taking healthcare nearer to their places is a massive reduction in the financial burden that EZShifa APNAA Doctor and HAWAA kiosks are bringing into their lives.