KARACHI: Health-tech startup Healthwire has closed $3.3 million in funding with participation from 47 Ventures, Habib Bank Ltd, Dilsons (Private) Ltd and angel investors from Silicon Valley, a press release said on Wednesday.

Founded by LUMS graduate Hamza Iqbal, Healthwire is focused on digitising the operations of doctors, clinics, hospitals, labs and pharmacies and claims to have the most widely integrated platform of thousands of healthcare service providers in over 60 cities, it added.

Published in Dawn, December 30th, 2021

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