India even after more than 60 years of its independence is still struggling to provide access to quality healthcare for most of the citizens especially those in rural areas and those belong to backward sections of the society. But now lot of efforts has been made to improve the situation using the intervention of technology.
On Wednesday April 27th, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi brought together stalwarts which have taken such initiatives in India on a common platform to discuss their initiatives as well as the change that they want to bring.
The session kicked off with the project ‘Manthan[/b]’ team consisting of Mr. Amod Kumar (I.A.S.), Dr.Monica and Mr. Girdhari Bora. This four-year, $4 million initiative—funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—aims to improve the health of mothers and newborns in Uttar Pradesh, which apparently has the highest percentage of maternal and neonatal deaths in India. The distinguished speakers gave a presentation explaining how their organization functions.
Next up were Mr. Mayur & Ms. Ritu Maheshwari (I.A.S.) who are currently working on project ’Aarogyam[/b] – India’s unique community based end-to-end digital health mapping & pregnancy tracking programme’. Initiated in Bagpat & JP Nagar districts of U.P., Aarogyam aims to provide healthcare services to citizens at their doorsteps.
These presentations provided insights about their initiatives, the challenges that they faced, the major steps taken by them and improvement that their efforts have resulted in. The session concluded on a high where lots of questions were put up which were answered equally well by the panel
On Wednesday April 27th, Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi brought together stalwarts which have taken such initiatives in India on a common platform to discuss their initiatives as well as the change that they want to bring.
The session kicked off with the project ‘Manthan[/b]’ team consisting of Mr. Amod Kumar (I.A.S.), Dr.Monica and Mr. Girdhari Bora. This four-year, $4 million initiative—funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—aims to improve the health of mothers and newborns in Uttar Pradesh, which apparently has the highest percentage of maternal and neonatal deaths in India. The distinguished speakers gave a presentation explaining how their organization functions.
Next up were Mr. Mayur & Ms. Ritu Maheshwari (I.A.S.) who are currently working on project ’Aarogyam[/b] – India’s unique community based end-to-end digital health mapping & pregnancy tracking programme’. Initiated in Bagpat & JP Nagar districts of U.P., Aarogyam aims to provide healthcare services to citizens at their doorsteps.
These presentations provided insights about their initiatives, the challenges that they faced, the major steps taken by them and improvement that their efforts have resulted in. The session concluded on a high where lots of questions were put up which were answered equally well by the panel