Mr.Jignesh Patel has 14+ years of leadership experience in Business Development, Channel Sales, Sales & Marketing Strategy. Even when his corporate career was going from strength to strength, his passion lay in becoming a social entrepreneur. He wanted to be a change-maker in the field of healthcare, a dream that lay hold of his heart for nearly 8 years. In 2018, he joined The Foundation for Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (CfHE) at IIT Hyderabad. The research of 1 year at IIT Hyderabad helped him understand the on-ground bottlenecks of the Vaccination Delivery model in India (and also in various developing nations worldwide). He envisages an organized and customised Vaccination Service for India as an answer to the issue by introducing India’s 1st Doctor-based Mobile Vaccination Clinic in 2019 – VaccineOnWheels as part of the 1st division of Jivika Healthcare and successfully served 2.7+ Million Hard-to-reach people with 200+ Mobile Vaccination Units in 40+ Districts and 6 States.
Jignesh Patel is working towards building infrastructure and being the pioneer in the space of Mobile Medical Services – taking healthcare services near patients’ homes and communities. Keeping this vision into action, Jivika Healthcare has introduced its 2nd division ChemoAtHome – taking hospital-like chemotherapy and cancer care facilities to patients’ doorstep. Under its 3rd Division
PublicPrivatePartnerships, Jivika introduced one-of-its-kind Health & Wellness Center (HWC) On Wheels – a holistic screening facility on wheels to screen 20+ disease conditions including the top 3 cancer (oral cancer, breast and cervical), eye screening (cataract & glaucoma), ANC, family planning etc.
Under the strong leadership of Jignesh Patel, Jivika Healthcare has made it to the YourStory TechSparks Top 30 Most Influential Startups Of India. It is also recognized as an “Innovative Startup” by StartupIndia and has won the CSRUniverse Social Impact Award 2022 & MIT University’s R.I.D.E Startup Of the Year Award 2022.
