Million by 30: Elwinder Singh
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As part of the Business Daily series Million by 30, Sam Fenwick meets Elwinder Singh and hears the story behind his private healthcare company Connect and Heal.
The business coordinates healthcare appointments, tests, treatment and medication for six million paying customers. He explains where the idea came from and why he moved thousands of miles to set up, finance and grow his company. Find out how he manages such a big business and what his plans are to grow the enterprise further.
Presenter: Sam Fenwick Producer: Rory Claydon/Carmel O’Grady Image: Elwinder Singh. Credit: Connect and Heal
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| 0:00.0 | Anyone that helps people who are accused of sorcery are also blamed for being sorceress. |
| 0:05.9 | Lives less ordinary from the BBC World Service. Real people with extraordinary stories. |
| 0:12.0 | I started having a strength in me. I have to stand up for other women. |
| 0:16.9 | Find out more at the end of this podcast. |
| 0:20.5 | Today on Business Daily with me, Sam Fwick, the latest episode in our Million by 30 series. |
| 0:26.9 | I'm joined by Alvinda Singh. |
| 0:29.1 | Alvinda founded his company, Connect and Heal, in his early 20s. |
| 0:33.4 | It's a private healthcare enterprise that coordinates appointments, tests, treatment and medication |
| 0:39.1 | on behalf of other businesses for more than 6 million of their employees. |
| 0:44.2 | How do we ensure that every single patient that we currently cover has access, is able to have |
| 0:51.5 | a wow experience and at the same time we are potentially able to improve |
| 0:56.4 | their health outcomes. Alvinda tells us what prompted him to come up with the idea, why he moved |
| 1:01.7 | to India to get it off the ground and tells us how he hopes to continue growing his business. |
| 1:06.9 | So much to do in this space, the speed of digitisation, the use of digital therapeutics, |
| 1:12.5 | the use of big data in healthcare and wearables and so on and so forth, |
| 1:15.8 | and the need to basically be able to track and affect the clinical outcomes. |
| 1:20.2 | That's a million by 30 with Alvinda Singh. |
| 1:24.6 | My conversation with Alvinda started with his family |
| 1:27.8 | and how struggling to get good care for his dad |
| 1:31.1 | started the thought process that led him to founding Connect and Heal. |
| 1:35.6 | We had multiple doctors treating him. |
| 1:37.5 | Obviously when someone has multiple lifestyle diseases, |
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