The Healthcare for the masses cannot be improved solely by reducing bed and doctor gaps to improve medical service converge. The entire healthcare ecosystem needs to be addressed in order to bring lasting and impactful solutions. Unless Community participation, Public Health Measures, Accurate primary data and appropriate financing solutions do not evolve, healthcare will remain a complex unresolved challenge for any government.

To address the entire healthcare delivery ecosystem, at CARE, we propose a four pillar model which encompasses the major challenges and their solutions.

The development of local human resources and equipping them with appropriate technology tools has been the mantra for success in any public service platform. Developing supply chain of quality drugs and materials at affordable price and enabling end users to avail the services with the help of insurance coverage closes the loop.

The Village Health Champion or VHC will be the first point of contact for our clients. The VHC is an educated independent woman from the same village who is trained in facilitating tele-medicine consultations and delivering primary care interventions. The training will be done by CARE hospitals & Foundation and its training staff who have a rich and long experience of training Para-medical staff.

The amazing spread and growth of mobile phones and computers, coupled with newer technologies like wireless connectivity and decision support systems, have made ‘healthcare for all’ more possible that it was ever, in the last thirty years and reach low income groups especially where’s there no quality doctor and healthcare is available.

An attempt to develop a Health financing and risk-pooling mechanism for Primary care, so that patients can access Health care providers without the fear of heavy expenditure and loss of savings. Although expenditure on primary care is not ‘catastrophic’, the very high frequency and repetitive nature of expenditure on primary care often results in a continuous slow leakage of the household’s income.

The presence of the government health system and the ongoing implementation of Rasthriya Swayam Bima Yojana (RSBY) scheme / own state government scheme is very strong and is being covered in various regions of the country, thereby taking care of the catastrophic events. Hence we can prioritize completely on primary care – to demonstrate to the government and the sector, that coverage of any and all insurance schemes can be extended to include even primary and non-hospital care.