Statement How might we get the Indian Urban Poor Population involved into the healthcare system & PHR through convenient and accessible healthcare by leveraging the available technologies and Humanizing the system.
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Due to the dire poverty in the Urban Poor Slums, very few can afford basic healthcare services. Even if they do, the health centres are at times, inaccessible, and chronically understaffed. The urban poor demographic generally avoids this very first step or tends to self-medicate (“gharelu nuske”,home remedies) instead. A casual approach at the first step increases the cost of healthcare and complications later leading to congestion in hospitals and distrust in the system.
We plan to educate and administer the locals on community first aid skills specific to their Basti(slums or jhuggis).
Sirhaana will provide the first aid care to mitigate minor injuries. A network of local respondents, college student volunteers and the Basti locals will be set up that will enable quick reach. Student volunteers will also have the provision of a smartphone and/or laptop to assist the locals to register on the system. The local respondent will be certified to administer first aid care and will also help people get on the PHR system with a smartphone enabled assisted PHR registry system.
We also have a strong backend system to manage the entire system along with the supply chain and helpline to ensure we never fall back and are able to give our best.
One thing that our process is designed to do is make people realise that having a Health ID in the PHR system is incredibly beneficial to them.
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