MUMBAI: Karjat, which like maximum small towns across India is fighting a perennial scarcity of specialist doctors, is attempting an cutting edge thought to offer wholesome healthcare to its 2.2 lakh population.
Leveraging its tag as a ‘weekend getaway’ equidistant from Mumbai and Pune, town’s management wants doctors to power down in teams to habits camps in Karjat’s sub-district hospitals on Saturdays and Sundays. In return, those ‘weekend doctors’ will get gratitude and loose stay within the picturesque the town’s lodges.
“We tried this on a smaller scale in Matheran, which has no vehicular get right of entry to, and met with good fortune,” mentioned Raigad collector Vijay Suryawanshi. He mentioned lodge associations in both Matheran and Karjat are keen to offer loose rooms for the doctors to stick over the weekends.
Considering that a survey revealed on Wednesday within the clinical journal, The Lancet, positioned India 145th amongst 195 countries in healthcare get right of entry to and high quality, such inventions are the will of the hour to make sure healthcare for all. India has a poor doctor-patient ratio of zero.62:1,000 as towards the World Health Organisation’s advice of 1 doctor in line with 1,000 population.
‘Specialists may make giant difference’
Incidentally, the ‘Karjat thought’ went viral when Aparna Hegde, a health care provider whose NGO Armman works with the Raigad collecterate within the field of maternal and infant mortality, posted it on social media sites Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday. Asking her colleagues from Mumbai and Pune to volunteer to spend one weekend, Dr Hegde wrote, “All sufferers who want tertiary care wish to be referred to hospitals in Panvel which might be expensive. And so high-risk factors get ignored and sufferers end up getting transferred to Mumbai too late, resulting in mortality.”
She told TOI that non-public doctors in Karjat are not available over the weekends, making it tricky for sufferers. “Karjat is just two hours from Mumbai and Pune. Even if consultants equivalent to cardiologists, orthopedic consultants or plastic surgeons come to the sub-district medical institution for camps as soon as in 3 months or so, it would be a really perfect thought,” she mentioned. She has were given confirmations from two town doctors to lend a hand out on the sub-district medical institution.
The sub-district medical institution has eight full-time doctors whilst consultants equivalent to a gynecologist and an anesthetist talk over with it as soon as per week, but that is some distance from sufficient. Most people need to rush to Panvel or Vashi for healthcare.
Collector Suryawanshi mentioned, “We spoke to doctors’ associations last week and so they were keen to volunteer in Karjat.” He mentioned even check-u.s.a. towards full-fledged operations would be a big deal for people of Karjat.
Leveraging its tag as a ‘weekend getaway’ equidistant from Mumbai and Pune, town’s management wants doctors to power down in teams to habits camps in Karjat’s sub-district hospitals on Saturdays and Sundays. In return, those ‘weekend doctors’ will get gratitude and loose stay within the picturesque the town’s lodges.
“We tried this on a smaller scale in Matheran, which has no vehicular get right of entry to, and met with good fortune,” mentioned Raigad collector Vijay Suryawanshi. He mentioned lodge associations in both Matheran and Karjat are keen to offer loose rooms for the doctors to stick over the weekends.
Considering that a survey revealed on Wednesday within the clinical journal, The Lancet, positioned India 145th amongst 195 countries in healthcare get right of entry to and high quality, such inventions are the will of the hour to make sure healthcare for all. India has a poor doctor-patient ratio of zero.62:1,000 as towards the World Health Organisation’s advice of 1 doctor in line with 1,000 population.
‘Specialists may make giant difference’
Incidentally, the ‘Karjat thought’ went viral when Aparna Hegde, a health care provider whose NGO Armman works with the Raigad collecterate within the field of maternal and infant mortality, posted it on social media sites Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday. Asking her colleagues from Mumbai and Pune to volunteer to spend one weekend, Dr Hegde wrote, “All sufferers who want tertiary care wish to be referred to hospitals in Panvel which might be expensive. And so high-risk factors get ignored and sufferers end up getting transferred to Mumbai too late, resulting in mortality.”
She told TOI that non-public doctors in Karjat are not available over the weekends, making it tricky for sufferers. “Karjat is just two hours from Mumbai and Pune. Even if consultants equivalent to cardiologists, orthopedic consultants or plastic surgeons come to the sub-district medical institution for camps as soon as in 3 months or so, it would be a really perfect thought,” she mentioned. She has were given confirmations from two town doctors to lend a hand out on the sub-district medical institution.
The sub-district medical institution has eight full-time doctors whilst consultants equivalent to a gynecologist and an anesthetist talk over with it as soon as per week, but that is some distance from sufficient. Most people need to rush to Panvel or Vashi for healthcare.
Collector Suryawanshi mentioned, “We spoke to doctors’ associations last week and so they were keen to volunteer in Karjat.” He mentioned even check-u.s.a. towards full-fledged operations would be a big deal for people of Karjat.
Weekend docs: Collector's Karjat idea goes viral
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