Date: Mar-10-2022
We aim to work with most grown ups and children to make them medically literate and use very basic medical care activities in daily lives. Number of them, which could be in the 100s or 1000s, may choose to go one step further and begin to learn more to do more for them and others like them. Many of them may realize that a political intervention is warranted to help solve a problem in a bigger mass of people and they may get involved in activism in healthcare.
Make the system work for you:
Healthcare is not only patient care but also community wellness. Who will make robust public healthcare policies for community wellness ? Policy makers and fund allocation will make right policies for the people if people act as watchdog and ensure that right policies are made to benefit them. Do you know what policies were made for you in the past 1 or 10 years ? At present the people are dependent on bureaucrats and politicians who may not be empathetic to the appropriate extent about your health care concerns.
Compare this with another example. Even without election time, one can find politically active individuals all around. This is a part of the power game of the people. Also political policies are affected by their involvement. We are hoping to generate activism in healthcare also. Kindling of this activism is always needed and not just at very bad times like Covid-19 endemic.
One step further:
Besides the need for highly qualified medical workers like nurses , technicians and doctors who not only do what they traditionally do but they may also ensure that the patients get the right help. This is the social aspect of healthcare. This can only be done if providers could activate a system with ease. At that point the system takes over and relieves the providers. Without a functional system, voluntary or governmental it is not possible. We aim to address this need by developing a total or collaborative voluntary system
Better communication:
By being perpetually active and involved, people will be better prepared and confident in communicating openly and meaningfully with a diverse group of recipients of care, providers and policy makers.
Benefits:
With the process of activism, people will acquire learning , skill development and knowledge. This process will affect not only healthcare policies but also medical care. e.g. it has been established that the infant mortality rate can be reduced by educating about avoiding the birth injuries , managing preterm birth, and better steps in complicated pregnancies.
Enlighten families will ensure regular appointments during pregnancy, which minimizes the risk of a miscarriage.
An enlightened community can contribute tremendously to community wellness e.g. in better management of infectious diseases like water borne infection like typhoid and aerosol borne infection like TB, Covid-12 or Flu , vaccination and poor nutrition which affects even the people who can afford.
When masses will get involved in care it will reduce the inbuilt biases and inequalities in care.
With open discussions and better transparent and proper systems, the mistrust between doctors and patients will reduce. By being an activist more people will be able to understand care delivery issues and will acquire proper communication skills with doctors and nurses.
In summary, our idea of Healthcare of the people by the people is unique, relevant and new in that we are trying to change the situation in our beloved country for good for better healthcare of all. .