--- title: "CMED Health and Their Way to Making Bangladeshi Nation Healthier" url: https://seedstars.com/content-hub/life/cmed-health-and-their-way-making-bangladeshi-nation-healthier/ --- 1. [HOME](/) 2. [RESOURCES](/content-hub/) 3. [SEEDSTARS LIFE](/content-hub/life/) 4. CMED HEALTH AND THEIR WAY TO MAKING BANGLADESHI NATION HEALTHIER ![CMED Health and Their Way to Making Bangladeshi Nation Healthier](https://seedstars-com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/173.max-1500x500.png) ASIA • HEALTHCARE ## CMED Health and Their Way to Making Bangladeshi Nation Healthier Nadia Mykhalevych FEBRUARY 20, 2020 This time, we had a talk with our alumni in the healthcare industry – CMED Health, a Bangladeshi startup that is focusing on preventive healthcare. We managed to talk with the company Co-Founder & Head of Growth Moinul H. Chowdhury and find out what the current state of their business is, what the team’s plans for the future are and how do they envision their place in global healthcare. ### **What are the main challenges in health in Bangladesh that you address with your product?** In Bangladesh, there are four major issues with healthcare. First, there is no referral system. Patients don’t have a structured primary healthcare system which can route them to the next level of health services. Second, healthcare is unaffordable due to no health insurance system in Bangladesh. Third, there is no individual health record which forces doctors to treat their patients with less information. It all culminates into the 4th issue, two-thirds of deaths in Bangladesh happen due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In 2016 only, almost 600,000 people died from NCDs, and the number is increasing every year. With our product, we aim to address each of these problems. We currently have a platform used by over 50,000 people that connects healthcare service providers with people who are in need of that service. This allows for referring the patient to the next level of care, create an individual health record for each user and raise awareness among the users about NCDs and advise them on how to prevent them. ### **What do you consider your biggest success? What changed in your business since you became a winner of the Seedstars Innovation prize?** Our biggest success in terms of recognition would be winning the Innovation Award at the Seedstars Summit 2018. Winning a major recognition on the world stage has brought a massive amount of interest, awareness and praise from everyone. This also helped us understand the global market, players and how we can forge our way forward. In business terms, our partnership with one of the largest NGOs in Bangladesh to utilize our platform for healthcare delivery would be our biggest success. ### **If you had a magic power to turn time back what would do you do differently?** Honestly, I wouldn’t change a thing. The hiccups we had, the stumbles we faced all helped us become what we are today. Without the experience paved with difficulties, you can not become successful. I’d keep things as they are, and maybe write down the winning lottery numbers in the past few years! ### **How do you communicate your message to your target audience? What tools/channels do you use and which one works the best?** Our experience shows the best way to communicate is through a human connection. Our health agents are the face of our company, and through them, our customers know who we are and what value we’re creating. ![Seedstars Summit and CMED](https://seedstars-com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/173_1.width-800.jpg) ### **How do you oversee your role in the global HealthTech?** We believe the work we are doing can create a massive tectonic change in the healthcare paradigm. Everything we see now is subject to change with the help of technology, and our aim is to be at the forefront of the change. We believe the work we’re doing is expandable to other socio-economic landscape. With proper support, we can completely change the way healthcare delivery is running right now. ### **How do you work with clients’ data?** With utmost privacy and security in mind. Although there are no strong regulations established in Bangladesh about this, we understand this to be of the utmost priority. ### **What is your expansion strategy? How do you plan to grow?** We believe quality is better than quantity. Our plan is to first firmly establish our foundation and then grow bigger. As Bangladesh is our first market, we want to expand and stabilize our business here and then expand to similar markets with a proven methodology and established product. ### **What role did Seedstars play in your company growth?** Winning a major recognition on the world stage has brought a massive amount of interest, awareness and praise from everyone. This also helped us understand the global market, players and how we can forge our way forward. ### **What’s the value of Seedstars for your business?** Seedstars mentoring sessions helped us a lot to stabilize our business and develop different policies for the company. Especially, the control tower helped us a lot in governing our new services and products. Seedstars is one of our investors, which added more recognition amongst the investor community. **Startup’s toolkit** ### **What tools do you use for better productivity/performance?** * Whatsapp * Slack * Excel ### **A unique fact about your team.** This might be an interesting fact for a startup that our team members age vary from 19 to 59. ### **A mind-blowing book that changed you/made you look at something from a different angle** The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, at first it was boring, then it turned to be intriguing, then it became mesmerising and at the end of the book, I was fervently jotting down what I comprehended from the book at the fear of forgetting everything the next morning. 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