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Anavara limited
Anavara limited is a health and wellness facilitation company, headquartered in Calgary, Canada. The goal of the company is to ensure that “Quality and affordable healthcare is available to all the citizens on this planet.” Towards that goal it has 3 divisions under its fold – Anavara Limited – to

facilitate the travel of people from one country to another to undertake medical procedure or surgery, Vkare – an app connecting clients to doctors, hospitals, diagnostic centers and pharmacies, and jusfres a wellness related endeavor promoting natural solutions to lifestyles. The company is

promoted by Ashok Babu Laguduva, a serial entrepreneur. The company counts some of the major organizations in Nigeria as its clients including the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Nigerian Navy etc.

Anavara Limited has tied up with more than 450 hospitals across the globe. Some of the prominent ones are the Apollo hospitals group (India), Canadian Specialist hospitals (Dubai), Quiron Salud (Spain), Parkside hospitals group (UK) etc. It also facilitates surrogacy through Georgia and Armenia through partners (Aurora-Georgia) and air ambulance / air stretcher services. Provides services in more than xxx countries either directly or through associates including India, UAE, Germany, Turkey, UK, Thailand, Spain, Malaysia, Singapore,

Inception to 2019
Anavara Limited was commenced in the year 2015, when Ashok Babu Laguduva left a well-paying job in Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) as a facilities manager to start this venture from India. Anavara Medical Tourism Pvt Limited, was incorporated in May 2015 and commenced

operations from Chennai on the 1st of June 2015. Then it expanded into Nigeria in the month of Aug 2015. Between 2015- 2017, Anavara expanded rapidly to UK, UAE, Bahrain, Mauritius, Cambodia, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kenya setting up standalone offices. This rapid expansion led to a

bleeding of resources and hence in late 2017 a decision was taken to consolidate operations. In Sept 2017 Ashok left to UAE to run the operations from Dubai/ Sharjah in UAE. NNPC commenced sending its clients to Dubai from that year and their top management was also coming to UAE for regular checkups and medical treatment. Due to financial constraints Ashok decided to move back to Canada in 2018 seeking a position in his previous organization. He rejoined his previous position in the month of Sept 2018. Anavara Limited Canada was incorporated in Sept 2018 in Calgary, Alberta province of Canada. All Anavara Limited Canada was incorporated in Sept 2018 in Calgary, Alberta province of Canada. All the other standalone companies were brought under the umbrella of Anavara Limited Canada.

2020 to till date
Business improved in 2019 till Covid struck in early 2020. Since the entire business model of Anavara was predicated on people travelling from one country to another, Covid put a complete stop on the business. Since this was a scenario no risk analysis could have highlighted, Anavara took this as a lessons learnt and decided to venture into app. The idea of Vkare was thus born. The App was envisaged as a one stop shop for all materials relating to health including a vibrant blog community, a forum for asking questions and answered by specialist doctors, in addition to the regular setting up of online and in person appointment with doctors, diagnostic centers and pharmacies.