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Jab shortage forces health startups to defer plans to vaccinate India Inc

Enterprises like 1mg, PharmEasy and Practo had drawn up initiatives to inoculate over a million employees from some of the country's top companies

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Hyderabad-based healthcare start-up ekincare has partnered with 1mg to facilitate Covid-19 vaccination for the employees of corporates such as Oyo, Flipkart, Swiggy, BlackRock, Micron and KPMG

Samreen Ahmad Bengaluru
As the government’s vaccination drive falters for lack of vaccines, the efforts of healthcare start-ups such as 1mg, Practo and PharmEasy to vaccinate millions of corporate employees have also been delayed for the same reason.   

Hyderabad-based healthcare start-up ekincare has partnered with 1mg to facilitate Covid-19 vaccination for the employees of corporates such as Oyo, Flipkart, Swiggy, BlackRock, Micron and KPMG.

1mg co-founder & CEO Prashant Tandon said the company has set up the network at the back end and the administration capacity – a network of some 2,500 administrators - so that they can vaccinate people at scale.

“Most of the

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