Max Life Insurance extends support to its employees in the fight against COVID-19
New Delhi: Max Life Insurance Company Ltd., has stepped up its efforts to support its employees and their families against the ongoing pandemic by introducing a unique virtual mobile platform, ‘Call Health’, that brings medical assistance to the doorstep of its employees. The ‘Call Health’ facility by Max Life provides its employees with round the clock services like telephonic assessment of COVID-19/flu symptoms, facilitating at-home diagnostic and testing services, home isolation support and 24 X 7 e-consultation with empaneled doctors, to name a few. The offering is complete with a COVID-19 home isolation 14-day care plan for affected employees and their families.
Max Life has also set up a dedicated COVID-19 support helpdesk that provides reliable information about network hospitals, COVID-19 testing labs, guidelines for home isolation to its employees. This internally set-up helpdesk is managed by the Company’s employees who collate and validate all information for hospital admissions, oxygen requirement and more to provide immediate care to the affected employee.
Max Life has further ensured that no employee faces any loss of pay in these critical times due to COVID-19 and has advanced leaves for the year of its employees to be able to take time off and take care of their own health and provide care for their families. The Company has also introduced ‘Vaccination Leave’, encouraging employees to get themselves vaccinated at their convenience. The Company is also committed to procuring COVID-19 vaccines for its workforce and their families when it becomes available to corporate India.
Commenting on the company’s efforts, Shailesh Singh, Director & Chief People Officer, Max Life Insurance said, “For us, providing care and support for our employees and their families is the single most important goal at this moment. Right from encouraging employees to take the required time off to provide care for their family members, we stand by them every step of the way. It is truly humbling to see how every employee across the Company has stepped forward to provide support for their affected colleagues as their own personal mission. Our people are a part of our family, and we are fully committed towards securing their health and wellness.”
For over two years now, a mobile app, ‘Dr Insta’, has also been made available to Max Life employees to help them book free medical consultations regarding any issue related to health, nutrition and mental wellness.
