We first saw the pediatric ICU and were so impressed at the size of the unit and the number of health professionals supporting it. There were at least 1-2 health care professionals engaged with each patient most of the time. It was great to see the wonderful care and attention these children were receiving. I was a little surprised that the two rooms (on opposite sides of the hallway) were basically wide open as I expected an ICU to be more closed off.
We also visited the tele-medicine facilities where doctors can monitor patient heart stats using remote monitors. They also had a facility for remote supervision/training by US experts on procedures that are being performed live in the NH hospital. This was a great idea to enhance the training of the health professionals at the hospital.
Finally, in the wrap-up discussion, we learned about an innovative strategy to help enable entrepreneurship in the rural communities while helping these communities with access/ability to pay for health care. This was a dairy cooperative model that provided loans for rural community citizens to buy cows thereby giving the people a source of income through the selling of milk. A percentage of these revenues was put into a pool that was made available to the people to pay for individual healthcare. We were quite impressed with this clever strategy. Overall, this was a fantastic site visit to an impressive health care facility.
Written by: Sudhir Rao
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