Prabir

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Amader Mobile Haspatal

In January 2021, Dr Sarkar brought together Paschim Banga Kheria Sabar Kalyan Samiti and MNBEI Majhihira along with Bankura Unnayani Institute of Engineering to review the feasibility of this project. After a day trip to their villages, it was decided to start with two tele-clinics, the Spokes – one in Kheria Sabar Samity and the other in Majhihira, with Amader Haspatal, Phulberia as the Hub.
A group of young volunteers from these villages were selected by the local organisations for their training as Paramedics in Amader Haspatal. This training program is expected to be completed by July 2021.
These Paramedics will operate the spokes, in consultation with the doctors in Amader Haspatal. In future, it has been decided to invite retired doctors, who can communicate in Bengali, to join this project and provide consultation from their homes. One of the basic strengths of these rural hospitals is the Principles of Rational Medicine and the use of Generic drugs, that makes the treatment at Amader Haspatal low cost and so, affordable for the villagers. Amader Haspatal is a strong proponent of another philosophy - “Nothing should be offered free of cost”. Continuing with this ideology, it has been decided that:
1. each clinic will also have a medicine sales counter from where generic medicines will be sold to the patients;
2. each patient will be charged a nominal fee, to make this project sustainable.
3. a local agency with the right type of vehicle will be engaged to provide ambulance service to the villagers, if and when necessary;
Hub & Spokes
Hub- Amader Haspatal Vill: Phulberia, P.O. Nischintapur, Chatna, Dist: Bankura, West Bengal 722136
Dr Pijus K Sarkar 9433263277 & Dr. Prabir Chatterjee 9433310060
Spoke 1- Paschim Banga Kheria Sabar Kalyan Samiti Vill& P.O: Rajnowagarh, Dist: Purulia, West Bengal 723128
Prashanta Rakshit 9732114569 & Dr. Sangita Nair 8348356972
Spoke 2- Majhihira National Basic Education Institute Manbazar-I Dist: Puruliya West Bengal 723128
Prasad Dasgupta 8016909727
Technical Advisors
Bankura Unnayani Institute of Engineering Subhankar Nagar, Pohabagan, Dist: Bankura, West Bengal 722146 Sasanka Datta 9474642082
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, 721302
Jayanta Mukhopadhyay 97326 16257 (http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/?home.html)
Thanks to Tapas Basu for the text and inputs