Dr VA Saoji, Dean, Bharati Vidyapeeth, Faculty of Medical Sciences, has incorporated the skill component in the medical training system of Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed which has made a difference at the institutional level. In conversation with Shally Makin, he shared his opinion about the medical education scenario in India
Dr VA Saoji, Dean, Bharati Vidyapeeth, Faculty of Medical Sciences, has incorporated the skill component in the medical training system of Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed which has made a difference at the institutional level. In conversation with Shally Makin, he shared his opinion about the medical education scenario in India
Despite being one of the most developed states in the country, 93 per cent of hospital beds in Maharashtra are in urban areas, claimed an advocacy group which released a survey on health inequities recently.
Working with the Government of Karnataka, Intel has successfully put into operation a joint tele-medicine initiative at the Angodu Primary Health Care center and Harihara Taluk Hospital that paves the way for the extension of healthcare benefits to the rural population of Karnataka.
The focus of the Union Budget 2010-11 is on rural healthcare with the allocations rising to a whopping INR 22,300 crores from INR 19,534 crores during the previous fiscal year. This escalation is in keeping with the evolving needs of the growing healthcare industry of the country.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd., announced recently that it has embarked on a revolutionary program to deliver world-class healthcare to remote villages in India, in oartnership with government of Andhra Pradesh.
The Jammu and Kashmir government has taken a slew of initiatives and administrative reforms to improve healthcare facilities in rural areas of the state.
Ericsson and Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation (ATNF), a part of the Apollo Hospitals Group, have taken a major step towards helping bridge the digital divide in rural India by laying the foundation for the introduction of telemedicine delivered using HSPA technology, which will enable the provision of affordable and accessible healthcare to millions of people in remote areas.
Infosys Technologies Limited has announced that it has completed deployment of a patient management tool for an award-winning health information technology (IT) initiative to improve healthcare access for rural and underserved patients.
Chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad recently invited Indian corporate healthcare giants to construct hospitals in rural areas, and offered them land to be provided free by the government. The CM vowed to strengthen peripheral health institutions of state and lessen the patient burden on tertiary hospitals in the city.
Three health information exchange projects in rural California are showing how such exchanges can boost healthcare services to underserved populations.
Intel has partnered with the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to transform healthcare in rural India.
[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Lack of health services is one of the main impediments for improving the quality of life in rural India and the same has been reiterated by the e-choupal initiative of ITC.
