LOS ANGELES and TORONTO, Jan. 4, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chand Investment Group has secured USD 6.5 million in funding from a very prominent businessman from Mumbai, India. The funding will be used towards the growth of AskTheDoctor.com.
"Our plan is to immediately hire at least 8 full-time Canadian and American physicians to help us with content development," says Prakash Chand, CEO of Chand Investment Group. "We plan to build our content exclusively with real doctors unlike some of the other major health websites around."
AskTheDoctor.com is an online source of free medical advice to anyone, anywhere, in the world. Users submit their medical questions free of cost via a simple-to-use submission form located on the website. When a question is answered, visitors are notified by email, and the response is posted on the website that day. No identifying personal data is shared, thus questions and answers remain anonymous. Answers are always provided by licensed and fully trained medical doctors. (Depending on the nature of the question, answers may be provided by general practitioners or specialists).
AskTheDoctor.com is rapidly becoming the #1 destination for people with medical concerns online. The website has recently been featured in USA Today and on CNN.