Rural Health Camps

In areas where proper medical facilities are hard to come by and nearest doctor is around 50 km away, a medical camp can provide yeoman service by screening the population for ailments and provide counseling and medication for minor illnesses. A typical medical camp can provide services like basic medical screening, doctor consultation, glucose / sugar tests, basic lab tests, specialist consultation and even dispense basic medicines.

Our professional team has experience of organizing hundreds of medical camps in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka in rural and semi-urban areas. Our team consists of doctors, paramedics and specialists. We have organized camps in mining communities and agriculture based communities in far flung areas of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Rural Health Clinics

Roughly 70% of India’s population of 1.2 billion lives in villages and semi-urban areas where access to quality healthcare is severely restricted.

Poor availability: Doctor presence in rural India is 1/7th the doctor to patient ratio in urban areas, despite having 4 times the population.
An absence study by Harvard published 2011 *study 2003
Andhra Pradesh 34.2 overall 40.9 doctors 28.0 nurses 27.8 pharmacist 40.4 others 36.5% of visits where no doctor was available

Limited accessibility: 31% of the population travels over 30 kms to avail healthcare. 66% of patients do not have the access to critical medicines.

Ill-timed interventions:  Roughly half of all sicknesses in India remain untreated due to lack of medical facilities with 70% basic illnesses requiring simple interventions.

Low Physician Density – 1.4/1000: Assuming that 1% of the population is sick at any given time, and each tehsil / mandal in India has a population of 0.3 mn, it translates to about 3000 sick patients per day per tehsil / mandal. Of the 0.612 million registered doctors in India, 74% reside in urban areas which constitutes 26% of the population. The rural sector with 72% of the total population of India has access to only 26% of the doctors. The gap in supply of healthcare professionals for rural and semi-urban areas is filled by unqualified doctors and over-burdened doctors who do not have the time nor infrastructure to deal with such volumes.

MahaVahini Foundation has been working to increase accessibility and affordability of healthcare in rural India with the support of several organizations and groups of individuals through its partners Asvas Healthcare and Kria Health who have the experience and technical competence of establishing and managing healthcare units and projects across Andhra, Telangana and Karnataka.

MahaVahini is currently working on an ambitious plan of plugging the gaps in the public health infrastructure in the Telugu states by establishing health centers in places where there are no state run health centers or by complementing existing health infrastructure.

The health center network being planned by Kria is to provide high quality healthcare at low cost through 700 health centers in Andhra Pradesh and 600 centers in Telangana.

The typical model will operate on a hub and spoke model where the hub is located at the mandal level and spokes being located in the surrounding 10-15 villages. The backbone of this network would be a scalable technology platform that includes electronic medical records and tele medicine.

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