The programme will focus on treatment of NCDs such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus in the first phase through home delivery of medicines
Shree Krishna Hospital, Karamsad has launched non communicable diseases (NCD) care programme named Shree Krishna Hospital Programme for Advancement of Rural and Social Health (SPARSH) in their network of 90 villages and four extension centres viz. (Sevaliya, Bhadran, Petlad and Agas).
The programme will focus on treatment of NCDs such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus in the first phase through home delivery of medicines.
Trained village health workers (VHWs) will visit the houses of these patients and assess them through a checklist of symptoms and measure their blood pressure or blood glucose through portable devices available with them. The data will be collected in tablets and transmitted online to the respective extension centres. This innovative approach means the entire project is paperless.
The medical officer at the respective extension centre will review the data and prescribe treatment accordingly. The pharmacist of the centre will prepare a packet of medicines for respective patients and the VHWs of the respective village will collect those packets and deliver them to the respective patients at their homes. Thus the patients will get the medicines delivered at their households through the programme and it will help in improving treatment compliance, thereby reducing complications for the patients.
In the next phase of the five year programme other diseases such as chronic lung diseases, stroke, epilepsy, hypothyroidism, etc. would be covered.
