Safhi Lifecare, is an innovative self-employment project promoted jointly by SAFHI and an entrepreneur partner, to provide reliable healthcare support to smaller towns of West Bengal. In collaboration with SRL Ranbaxy, the largest clinical laboratory chain in South Asia and a Small Industries Development Bank, SAFHI would facilitate establishment of 20 Pathological Centres in 15 districts of West Bengal in the first phase.

 SAFHI is looking for educated youth entrepreneur partners interested to run the Lifecare Centres. The selected persons (SEP) would be running the centres jointly with SAFHI at least for 18 months. On satisfactory completion of this entrepreneurial internship and evaluation of adherence to service quality, financial compliance and loan repayment ability of the SEP, the pathological section of the Lifecare project would be transferred to the SEP. This evaluation would be based on a joint evaluation by Safhi and the other partner organisations. 

Support to be provided by Safhi Lifecare Project to SEP:

·         20 days residential training on managing pathology business, enterprise development, accountancy and marketing.

·         Initial marketing of the services; provide logistic support for collection of samples, delivery of test reports, testing at Calcutta and Mumbai state-of-art laboratories.

·         Arrangement of the infrastructure of the centre i.e. furniture, electricity, personal computer with internet facility, maintenance of the centre with active support from the SEP.

 The 20 locations that have been selected for setting up the centres are:  

 Candidates from other locations may apply. Those would be taken up in the next phase.

 Interested candidates must be:

·         Local resident of the selected town

·         Qualification: BSc / MSc (Biology/Botany/Zoology/Pharma)

·         Willing to take a loan of Rs.1,50,000 and pay back in 3 years

·         Willing to invest Rs.30,000 upfront on being selected

·         Willing to market pathological testing service in the specified territory with active support from SAFHI & other partner organisations.

·         Willing to take up business target in order to refund the loan within the specified period.

·         Able to arrange an area of 1000 square feet (ground floor) in a prime/accessible location of the selected town. 

Willing candidates are request to apply with complete bio-data and evaluation report in the prescribed format in the following address along with a non-refundable registration fee of Rs.100 (Demand Draft drawn in favour of SAFHI) within 15 days to the following address:

Safhi Lifecare
SAFHI
222 AJC Bose Road, Space 3A
Kolkata 700 017
safhi@safhi.org

• Candidates would be short listed based on their evaluation reports.
• Only the short listed candidates would be called for personal interview.
• Person not willing agree to any of the above condition may not apply.
• As this is a business venture there is no fixed salary. The income of the SEP would be based on the revenue generated by the individual centre.