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Appropriate Technology 

Dr ​Surabhi reviewing patient records using EMR in OPD 

Technology is necessary in health care at all levels, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. Health related technology has developed at a rapid pace in the last few years and has influenced health significantly in urban India. However, the impact of such technology on the indices of public health has been minimal, as many of the major health problems are found in rural areas, where access to technology remains largely inaccessible.

​APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY

Open Source Low Cost Technology​:

  • Out Patient Clinic every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday:
  • Inpatient Ward
  • Operating Theatre Complex
  • Diagnostic Laboratory
  • Low Cost Pharmacy

HOSPITAL SERVICES

Ganiyari Hospital Services:

  • Out Patient Clinic every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday:
  • Inpatient Ward
  • Operating Theatre Complex
  • Diagnostic Laboratory
  • Low Cost Pharmacy

VILLAGE HEALTH WORKERS

Initial Development:

  • Selection criteria: a woman of the village who will visit everyone, represent everyone by village communities themselves​

​Training

  • Village Health Worker training is conducted every month.
  • Clear Role and Responsibilities
  • Continuous Support
  • Incentives and Disincentives
  • Empowerment

JSS SUB CENTRES

Outreach Clinics:

  •  Outreach Clinics at Shivtarai, a forest-fringe village 43 km to the northwest of Bilaspur town
  •  Outreach Clinics clinic at Semariya village, 42 km to the north of Bilaspur
  •  Outreach Clinics at Bamhani village, 70 km to the north of Bilaspur town, in the Achanakmaar Wildlife Sancturary.

​Senior Health Workers

  • A (para) medic who is not an appendage to a medic. Focus to shift from the doctors based strategy to “where there is no doctor” – supporting a middle level cadre of health worker.

​RURAL HEALTHCARE SERVICES

SNAKE AND ANIMAL BITES

Swift Diagnosis & Treatment:

It is essential for communities to be able to recognise envenomation early in order to be able to seek help at an early stage. Animal bites resulting in death and disability to human and their animals is an overwhelmingly rural problem and people suffer from:. ​
  •  Poisonous snake bites
  • ​Scorpion and Other Bites e.g. bee & wasp
  • Dog and cat bite/scratches

​Improving Treatment

  • Animal bite care centres providing information regarding each animal bite
  • Solar powered refrigerator to preserve the antisera and the vaccines for snake and suspected rabid animal bites

TUBERCULOSIS SILENT KILLER

EFFECTIVE TREATMENT REGIMENS:

Tuberculosis is the most common killer of young people in rural Bilaspur. It is unfortunately not unusual to see many people in a family affected by the disease due to close contact and a shared status of malnutrition.
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