dr.consulta provides high-quality, low-cost primary and minor secondary healthcare to Brazil’s low income population.
Investee | dr.consulta, founded 2011 |
Location | Brazil |
Sector | Health |
Funding Start | 2014 |
Funding type | Equity |
Website | https://www.drconsulta.com/ |
75% of the Brazilian population (150m) relies purely on the public healthcare system, which is inefficiently managed, underfunded, and incapable of providing quality healthcare services. Scheduling a consultation appointment can take 3-6 months. Public day clinics are scarce and of very low quality. In Sao Paulo, for example, there are only 16 public specialty care clinics available to serve 15m people (~1 clinic for 1m people), which leads to overcrowded waiting rooms and waiting times that are exceptionally long. As a result, poor Brazilians have limited or no access to quality healthcare services and many do not receive necessary treatments and illness relief.
dr.consulta provides high quality, low-cost specialty healthcare and diagnostic services to Brazil’s low to middle income population via a network of clinics that offer 30 specialty care services, diagnostics and laboratory services.
By 2020, dr.consulta aims to provide affordable healthcare to 1 million patients per year through a network of 100 clinics. Patients, with 80% percent being women and children, will have better access to quality healthcare services with a focus on preventative care of most prevalent chronic diseases.
Impact Reach | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
# of served patients/ year | 24'587 | 89'233 | 222'816 |
patient visits p.a. | 55'560 | 219'717 | 585'007 |
% of satisfied patients | 97% | 97% | 95% |
By investing in dr.consulta, we align with and contribute to five of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Thomaz Srougi, Founder, dr.consulta“LGT Impact is a visionary institution. And that is a scarce asset. They had the vision to position themselves alongside us when what we were doing was far from obvious to many people. They saw what others did not.”