In response to the growing customer demands for transportation services during the health crisis caused by the outbreak of COVID-19,
Cloudnine Group of Hospitals, India’s leading chain of maternity, fertility and child care has collaborated with Ola, India’s leading mobility platform, to offer mobility services to its customers. This service will be available across all six Cloudnine centres in Bengaluru located in Jayanagar, Old Airport Road, Malleshwaram, Bellandur, Whitefield and HRBR layout. Following the government’s advice, booking an Ola ride will remain restricted to essential visits to the hospital only.
As a part of this collaboration in Bengaluru,
Ola will station its
cabs at each Cloudnine hospital. A special area has been designated for Ola pick-ups and drop-offs where Cloudnine staff will help customers in and out of the vehicles. All the bookings will be facilitated to the customers through the Cloudnine call centre.
This service comes as an extension to the hospital’s recently launched teleconsultation services allowing customers to consult doctors from their homes via video thereby avoiding all the non- essential travel to the hospital. Doctors will advise patients to visit the hospital only when there is an urgent need to undergo a medical scan or test which requires immediate attention.
Speaking on the collaboration with Ola says
Raviganesh Venkataraman, CEO, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals “
Safe patient transport is a critical area in healthcare access, serving as a link between home and health facilities. Our collaboration with Ola is an endeavor to play an active role in easing challenges in the current situation and streamline the delivery of our services to our customers. We are confident that this service, along with accessible healthcare shall ensure access to affordable means of mobility. We are privileged to provide safe and reliable transportation options through our collaboration with Ola thereby making our services accessible to customers under all circumstances.”
Adding further, Raviganesh Venkataraman said: “As our country faces challenging times, availability of transportation services comes as an extension to our teleconsultation services. At Cloudnine, customer centricity has always been our core value and we are happy to make this service easily accessible and available to address their needs and requirements. We are constantly innovating and looking into all available options to increase accessibility of care for our customers”.
Speaking about the collaboration, Anand Subramanian, Spokesperson and Head of Communications Ola said: “In the face of this unprecedented medical and economic crisis, it is imperative that we come together to mobilize all resources at our disposal to fight this pandemic. By enabling access to mobility, in this case for expecting mothers to and from Cloudnine Hospitals, we are filling in for a much needed reliable and secure mobility solution in these challenging times. Ola’s collaboration with Cloudnine Hospitals is yet another initiative through which we will continue to serve essential travel for citizens, as we all emerge stronger together in these testing times.”
About Cloudnine Group of Hospitals
Cloudnine Group of Hospitals, is India’s leading chain of women, childcare, and fertility hospitals headquartered in Bengaluru with over 700 beds across 20 facilities in Gurgaon, Noida, Chandigarh, Chennai, Mumbai and Pune. Founded by neonatologist Dr.R. Kishore Kumar with his team of three co-founders in 2007, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals is backed by marquee investors – True North, Matrix Partners, Sequoia India. We are committed to setting new standards in healthcare by offering comprehensive maternal, fertility, gynaecological, neonatal and pediatric care. Having celebrated over 80000 births across regions, with a 3000+ strong team, Cloudnine has been the pioneer in this speciality sector with continued effort to add new locations across India while continuing to maintain and excel international standards of care. For more information, visit
www.cloudninecare.com or write to
info@cloudninecare.com
About Ola
Ola is India’s largest mobility platform and one of the world’s largest ride-hailing companies, serving 250+ cities across India, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK including key global markets like London and Sydney. The Ola app offers mobility solutions by connecting customers to drivers and a wide range of vehicles across bikes, auto-rickshaws, metered taxis, and cabs, enabling convenience and transparency for hundreds of millions of consumers and over 2.5 million driver-partners. Ola’s core mobility offering in India is supplemented by its electric-vehicle arm, Ola Electric and Ola Fleet Technologies, India’s largest fleet management business. With its acquisition of Ridlr, India’s leading public transportation app and investment in Vogo, a dockless scooter sharing solution, Ola is looking to build mobility for the next billion Indians. Ola also extends its consumer offerings like micro-insurance and credit led payments through Ola Financial Services and a range of owned food brands with India’s largest network of cloud kitchens through Ola Foods. Ola was founded in 2011 by Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati with a mission to build mobility for a billion people.
