Gurugram based e-commerce healthcare company 1mg has been selected along with 16 other companies from across the world to help the United Nations achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
This selection is a major recognition on a global scale for the digital healthcare platform that “has been handpicked as the model that could impact healthcare in a meaningful way”, a company statement said.
The global organisation has identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals for the world — which 193 countries have signed on to. For each goal, one company has been selected from around the world.
“It is a privilege that 1mg received this recognition as a model that could have a significant impact on making healthcare work for patients across the world. We operate with a simple philosophy: the consumer deserves to understand and participate in decisions regarding their well being. The consumer is losing confidence in the system, driven by the opacity and misaligned interests across the board. 1mg is committed to making healthcare work for the patients,” said Prashant Tandon, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of 1mg.
In acknowledgment of the critical part business visionaries play in tending to worldwide difficulties and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the US Department of State joined forces with Unreasonable Group to identify and support high growth ventures that have the potential to scale rapidly and use market forces to bring meaningful positive change across the 17 SDGs.
Following a concentrated half year process, sixteen organisations were chosen for this programme. Many of the entrepreneurs behind these endeavours originate from outside of the United States counting Prashant Tandon, who established 1mg an organisation exceptionally suited to address Goal #3 of the SDGs which is to better the healthcare ecosystem.
1mg offers is one of India’s largest repositories of information on medicine and their price comparison. It also operates the largest E-pharmacy, E-diagnostics and E-consultations network in the country. The company with expertise in healthcare, technology, data analytics, and operations and is backed by Sequoia, HBM, Maverick, Omidyar Network etc. It has raised $36 million to date and is scaling up its service rapidly across the country.
