Dr. Elvee Marbaniang and Siddharth Das, founders of Runo Health barely knew each other before fate brought them together. Dr. Elvee was going to pursue a Post Graduate medical course but after he met Siddharth, he brushed the idea aside and both of them decided to start a business together. Prior to this, Dr. Elvee […]
Dr. Elvee Marbaniang and Siddharth Das, founders of Runo Health barely knew each other before fate brought them together. Dr. Elvee was going to pursue a Post Graduate medical course but after he met Siddharth, he brushed the idea aside and both of them decided to start a business together.
Prior to this, Dr. Elvee served as a doctor in CMC, Vellore and Siddharth worked as a corporate professional in Delhi but both of them left their respective jobs to give their business idea a chance. Their first venture – Runo Fresh focused on providing fresh vegetables, meat, poultry products and other food items at the doorstep during the first wave of Covid 19 which people could order through Instagram. While they handled their startup pretty well, they saw there was also a need for doorstep delivery of medicines and home care medical services during the hour of crisis, where people were too frightened to step out of their houses to seek medical help. Hence, Runo Health Pvt. Ltd. was founded towards the latter part of March 2020.
Runo Health provided medicines and health care services directly to the homes of people in need which was seen as a blessing by many people. As the demand for their services grew, they decided that they needed to partner with as many hospitals, pharmacies, individual doctors and nurses as possible. Currently, Runo Health has 30 – 40 partners in Meghalaya. Dr. Elvee and Siddharth also saw that the labs in CHCs and PHCs present in Rural Meghalaya are merely functional which made it difficult for people to travel to Shillong to get themselves tested, given the inter-district travel restriction. Therefore, Runo Health penetrated into Rural Meghalaya and introduced offline pick up points where mobile testing stations were set up in far off areas, away from city where people would have to travel only half way to get themselves tested and their results would be delivered at the same pick up spot.
Initially, Runo Health only functioned in Shillong and Jowai but later expanded to Guwahati by partnering with more than 50 hospitals, pharmacies and other medical agencies. Runo Health also gives discounts on medicines and provides free consultation to people who belong to the BPL (Below Poverty Line) category. People would contact Runo Health through Whatsapp or Instagram and their requirements would be met at the earliest.
