A Tamil Nadu-based husband-and-wife medical team has spent the last few years quietly building something India’s wellness shelves have rarely seen: a full range of doctor-formulated, clinically referenced gummy supplements, each one designed around a specific gap the two of them kept encountering, again and again, in their own patients.
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Dr. Hema Sathish (Dermatologist) and Dr. Sathish (Orthopaedic Surgeon), founders of Healthetc
Indian healthcare, for the most part, has been built to treat disease, not to walk alongside the slow, accumulating decline that precedes it. Preventive care has existed mostly as advice; eat better, sleep more, manage stress without products engineered specifically to make that advice easy to act on every single day.
That is the gap Dr. Hema Sathish and Dr. Sathish Devadoss set out to close, and it is the thread that runs through everything Healthetc. has built since.
Dr. Hema Sathish is a cosmetic dermatologist with her education from the University of Wales and her husband Dr. Sathish Devadoss, an orthopaedic surgeon with his degrees from Dundee university and specialised trainings in Oxford, Germany, Australia etc is the Vice president of Devadoss Multispeciality hospital which is a family run 200 bedded hospital; they keep up with the latest technology like robot surgeries for orthopaedic and several other advanced surgeries. Providing the best of healthcare at affordable prices is what the motto of the family has been which has garnered a lot of good will.
Between the two of them, they were seeing patients from almost every angle of everyday health; skin, hair, bones, joints, hormones, sleep, metabolism, weight. And a pattern kept repeating itself, consultation after consultation. Patients understood exactly what they needed to do. They simply didn’t keep doing it.
Out of years of these conversations came Healthetc., the couple’s nutraceutical brand, built around a deceptively simple insight: people are far more likely to stick with something they actually enjoy taking. That insight became a chewable, sugar free, vegan gummy format and they have started off with 6 different well researched formulations, each one engineered for a specific, evidence-backed health concern rather than a vague promise of “wellness.”
Clinical Validation
Health etc. takes the question of evidence seriously. The brand has registered its clinical studies and every formulation is built around ingredients with documented research behind them. Health etc. holds FSSAI approval across its entire range and is also vegan certified; every batch comes with a Certificate of Analysis (COA), so what is on the label is exactly what is in the product.
And it shows up in the clean-label standards applied uniformly across every product: sugar-free, vegan, gelatin-free, gluten-free, non-GMO, and free from artificial colours. Nothing in the range is positioned as a quick fix.
Perhaps most distinctively, Healthetc. leans into India-specific science rather than importing Western wellness templates wholesale. The diabetic gummy is built almost entirely around Indian botanicals with centuries of traditional use behind them like jamun, mulberry, fenugreek, amla, rather than relying on a single imported “superfood” ingredient. The skin gummy specifically addresses pigmentation, pollution exposure, and barrier damage from air conditioning, concerns far more relevant to Indian skin and Indian cities than to a formula developed for a different climate and a different population.
Beyond Healthetc.: The Ecosystem Behind the Brand
Healthetc. is part of Wedjat Health Solutions Pvt. Ltd., founded by Dr. Hema Sathish and Dr. Sathish Devadoss.
The group also includes Cureka, India’s 1st Preventive Healthcare Platform Curated by Doctors, that offers doctor-recommended products across multiple categories.
TGHC is the group’s sensitive skincare brand, built around barrier-friendly formulations for skin types that don’t tolerate aggressive, fragrance-heavy products well. It reflects the same clinical-first philosophy as Healthetc., applied to topical skincare rather than ingestible nutrition.
At the centre of it all is Devadoss Multispeciality Hospitals, where Dr. Sathish Devadoss leads the orthopaedic department and Dr. Hema Sathish heads dermatology. The hospital operates across more than 15 specialities and is equipped with some of the most advanced medical technology available in the region, including robotic surgery, a reflection of how seriously the group takes clinical precision, not just in wellness products but in the full spectrum of medical care it delivers. It is this hospital environment, with its constant, unfiltered view of how disease and decline actually present in real patients, that continues to shape how new Healthetc. formulations are conceived and refined.
For two doctors who started out simply trying to get their own patients to stay consistent with their vitamins, the journey from clinic-level frustration to a six-product, nationally distributed range, anchored by a growing ecosystem under Wedjat Health Solutions marks a fairly significant turn.
What hasn’t changed is the underlying premise. India’s preventive healthcare gap is enormous, and most of it is invisible until it isn’t, until the hot flashes become unmanageable, until the bone scan comes back lower than expected, until the blood sugar test crosses a line that can no longer be ignored. Dr. Hema Sathish and Dr. Sathish Devadoss are betting that the right products, built by people who have spent years watching this gap up close, and designed around how people actually behave rather than how they’re supposed to behave, can close it one daily gummy supplement at a time.
