Medindia
Indian health-information site (non-political)
Background
Medindia was conceived in 1997 and launched as a website in 2001, formally incorporated as a business in 2004, making it one of the earliest health websites to emerge from India. It was founded by Dr. Sunil Shroff (a urologist and kidney transplant surgeon), Arun Shroff, and Sanjay Shroff, who combined medical, technical, and business expertise to build a consumer health-education platform. The site grew into a large repository with over a million pages of content, including health news, calculators, quizzes, and multimedia, and is run day-to-day by a team of doctors, healthcare professionals, writers, and editors, with Dr. Shroff serving as Chief Medical Officer and Editorial Director. Medindia has positioned itself as a leading health portal in India and South Asia by traffic and content volume, competing with other consumer medical-information sites like WebMD and MedPage Today. It is privately owned (via Medindia4u.com Pvt. Ltd.) with no major external investors or state ownership disclosed in public company databases. Because its content is almost exclusively focused on medicine, wellness, and health news rather than politics or international affairs, it carries essentially no partisan or geopolitical slant, and it has not been a notable source of controversy or bias disputes in the way general news outlets have.
Sources
- Medindia - About Medindia
- Medindia - Wikipedia
- Medindia - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding
- Medindia Health Network | LinkedIn
Profile compiled 2026-09-29; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.