Brahmananda Narayana Multi-specialty Hospital, in association with Hewlett Packard (HP), on Monday launched its first e-Health Centre in Musabani area of Jharkhand.
launched with the aim to make primary healthcare and diagnostic facilities accessible in the remote and rural areas of Jharkhand, the E-Health Centre will be managed by paramedical experts from the hospital. This technologically advanced humanitarian initiative was inaugurated by Dr. Ajoy Kumar (Member of Parliament), Jamshedpur along with Vineet Saini, facility director, Brahmananda Narayana Multi-specialty Hospital, Jamshedpur.
Making healthcare facilities available and accessible in remote areas of rural India has been an ongoing challenge due to lack of medical resources, poor infrastructure and connectivity. The E-Health Centre overcomes all these road blocks as it is a self-sustained infrastructure — backed by robust healthcare services — through remote access (cloud technology). The centre will be continuously monitored by senior and experienced doctors at Brahmananda Narayana
Multi-specialty Hospital through techniques like biometric surveillance and cloud-enabled medical devices. According to World Health Organisation (WHO), the global standard of doctor-population ratio is 1:250. However, in rural areas of Jharkhand, the doctor-population ratio is 1:34,000 due to the dearth of medical services. In India, about seventy-five per cent of healthcare infrastructure, medical manpower and other health resources are concentrated in urban areas where 27 per cent of the population lives.
Commenting on the launch of E-Health Centre , Mr Vineet Saini, facility director, Brahmananda Narayana Multispecialty Hospital, Jamshedpur, said, “The healthcare situation in rural Jharkhand is in a dismal State dominated by contagious waterborne diseases, reproductive tract infections and other chronic ailments which has led to high mortality rate. With this initiative we envision to provide the basic healthcare requirements to rural people in this state without any infrastructural constraints. He further added, “This is just a beginning and in future we plan to extend this innovative service to other backward parts of the State.”
The intelligent E-Health Centre is equipped with all modern medical technology such as cloud-integrated diagnostic equipments, tele medicine service, laboratory and pharmacy. This set-up is enabled by built-in electricity and internet connectivity to ensure the doctors at Brahmananda Narayana Multispeciality Hospital can consult the patients and counsel them on required treatment. This centre will enable healthcare access to over three to four lakh people residing in and around Jamshedpur such as Galudih, Ghatsila, Surda, Musabani, Baharagoda and Chakulia.
Narayana Health has one of the largest telemedicine networks in India that reaches out to areas where healthcare facility/infrastructure is remote.