Telemedicine based Primary Healthcare across Tier IV towns in India – Agile plans to set up 500 such healthcare centres across Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh

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Telemedicine based Primary Healthcare across Tier IV towns in India - Agile plans to set up 500 such healthcare centres
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Agile Healthcare & Rehabilitation Services Pvt Ltd, promoted by a group of UK-Based doctors of Indian origin has entered in to a strategic collaboration with Kolkata-head quartered Glocal Healthcare Services to offer Telemedicine based Primary Healthcare across Tier IV towns in India as also Market & Implement Glocal’s Digital Dispensaries in U.K.

Agile plans to set up 500 such healthcare centres across Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, places that are really in need of access to doctors and rational Healthcare. Five centres have already been set up and 65 centers have been identified. In the first 6 months 150 centres would be set up and subsequently scaled up.

The Agile plan is to make a difference to primary healthcare in India in areas where general practice among physicians is almost non-existent. This has given rise to a greater focus on specialized care that tends to make healthcare unaffordable to the large majority of the population.

Dr Vishal Upadhyay, MRCS, FRCS (Tr & Orth) UK, one of the brains behind Agile said that they have identified Glocal to deliver primary healthcare in areas where people are mostly dependent on either government services that are largely ill-equipped and private practice which is expensive. Agile has chosen Glocal as partner because of it’s technological strength which has the capability of a huge outreach and fast and effective delivery of healthcare.

Dr Upadhyay said that Glocal’s suite of Litmus DX, MX & RX, is a comprehensive mechanism of healthcare delivery mounted on an integrated software platform. It is a combination of acquisition of medical data, analysis, diagnosis and medical advice on a single platform.

Dr Upadhyay said Agile will be Marketing and Implementing the Digital Dispensaries in UK where there are lot of patients who need to be brought in to hospital by ambulance for Outpatient consultations consuming expensive time and resources of the ambulance service. Also the Accident and Emergency departments are clogged with patients. In such circumstances, this technology can be dealt with at their home and decisions about in patient admission made. He said if this can be done, then patients will need to be brought into hospital  only in cases of emergency thus saving unnecessary use of expensive resources of Ambulance services and Accident and Emergency Departments.

India has a complex, fragmented healthcare delivery system, dominated by quacks & individual clinics, and the onus is usually on the patient to ensure that test and treat cycles or diagnostic processes are completed. Patients have to occupy a central role in the Indian healthcare system to ensure a right doctor’s consultancy followed by a successful diagnosis. In doing so, they need to navigate the complex and fragmented health system, and go back and forth between a variety of public and private providers at different levels of care. In doing so, they need time, money, patience, social support and resilience, and if these are lacking, patients tend to opt out of the diagnostic cycle.

Treatment, therefore, is often delayed and morbidity remains high. Added to this is the unequal distribution of doctors & diagnostic services and the high Out-of-pocket expenditure which is often catastrophic.

While health insurance is an important issue and has improved over the past years, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), it is among the lowest of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) economies.

The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) offers medical insurance up to Rs 30,000 for a family of five living below the poverty line (BPL) The cost of outpatient treatment, which the poor prefer over hospitalisation, forms 65.3% of out-of-pocket expenditure in India, according to a 2016 Brookings report. But these are not covered by RSBY. It is, however, limited to inpatient treatment or hospitalisation. Medical coverage, even in private sector, is only for hospitalisations or day-care IPDs. Primary healthcare or outpatients are left to be financed by the individuals themselves.

Dr Upadhyay said that the group of Indian doctors living and serving abroad to people in those countries have come together to give back to society by implementing what they believe is the core solution to the problem of healthcare in India. “The Agile plan is build to address this serious issue of primary healthcare in India, which we believe will go a long way in establishing a healthy society in the country.”  

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