Portea: As wary patients skip hospitals, Portea, et al. get cure to homes. We’ll pay for it, say insurers.

In mid-March, as India was lumbering around in the corridors of its creaky healthcare infrastructure with the number of Covid-19 cases rising every day, for Anirudh, a Bengaluru-based professional, the worry lines were deepening, albeit due to a different reason. His father just had a surgery for colorectal cancer and was recuperating in the hospital. Anirudh wanted to bring him back and was looking for nursing care at home. But the task turned