DawaaDost announces one day’s Diabetes course of ‘Metformin 1000 mg’ at Re 1 per day

On World Diabetes Day, DawaaDost announced one day’s diabetes course of ‘Metformin 1000 mg’ at only rupee one per day, which is expected to reduce the expenses of patients on their diabetic care to one-fourth. Through this programme, DawaaDost will retail Metformin 1000 mg tablets from the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the country. The patients or customers across the country will have to scan their prescription and upload it to Dawaadost.com for availing their medicine, which will be shipped to their doorsteps. They can also buy the medicines at DawaaDost’s retail shops. Metformin is the first line of treatment for type-2 diabetes.

“India is home to 80-90 million diabetics, the second-highest in the world. One in six people in the world with diabetes is from India. Diabetes often leads to complications with the eyes, kidneys or heart. It is a leading cause of death in the country, often due to complications developed during the advanced stages. Studies have shown a lack of adherence towards taking medicines as a major cause of diabetes-related complications, hospitalisation and deaths,” said Dr Rushin Mehta, a leading diabetologist from Mumbai.

Amit Choudhary, Founder- Chief Executive Officer, DawaaDost, said, “Quite often, this lack of adherence is due to the lack of affordability. By providing cost-effective diabetes care, the progress of diabetes and related complications could be controlled right at the onset of the disease. DawaaDost’s major objective is to make medicines for critical ailments highly affordable to the common man, so that he takes them regularly. These medicines are products of the top 10 pharma companies in the country.”

DawaaDost wants to solve three challenges of availability, affordability and awareness of high-quality medicines. The company believes that every medicine consumer in India can save 50-80 per cent on their medicine bills by providing them high-quality, branded generic medicines. It believes it is possible, to save Rs 50,000 every year per family on medicines and reduce the nation’s medicine bills by Rs 1,000 crores in five years.