Canara Bank, Biocon Foundation and OTTET join handsto improve healthcare delivery

Canara Bank has lent support to Biocon Foundation and Orissa Trust of Technical Education (OTTET) for a public private partnership (PPP) with the Odisha government to deliver a novel e-healthcare programme for the underprivileged and rural communities in the state.

OTTET has been engaged in an e-Health programme with the Government of Odisha through PPP to provide access to quality healthcare for 51,000 villages in Odisha. Biocon Foundation has joined hands with OTTET to augment a unique mega-ICT based e-Health project in the state. The partners through this collaboration will strive to deliver evidence-based healthcare to deal with primary health and chronic conditions in communities that have poor access to quality healthcare.

Under this PPP, Biocon Foundation and OTTET will set up an electronic diagnostic facility, an e-Health Centre, managed by local young entrepreneurs, at all the primary health centres (PHC) of the Odisha government.

This young entrepreneur will be provided financial assistance by Canara Bank and will be trained by Biocon Foundation and OTTET to support the medical officer at the PHC for various healthcare and diagnostic services.

An MOU was signed between Biocon Foundation, Canara Bank and OTTET.

This single point, see and treat model of e -health centre will help to improve the health of rural communities for whom even reaching a PHC is a major challenge. The e-health centre entrepreneur will support the medical officer at the PHC for the following:

1. Measuring each patient’s vital stats like BP, Pulse, Haemoglobin, & Blood sugar.
2. Providing diagnostic tests that the doctor prescribes and  requires for accurate diagnosis
3. Providing telemedicine consultation for patients who require specialist advice

Additionally, this model will focus on getting all the patient records captured on the electronic system to provide easy access for the treating doctors both at the PHC and at tertiary hospitals.

It will ensure that each patient’s life long medical record is available online thus improving the treatment standards across all health centres. In addition, patient data will be available to the government to study disease patterns and to create a database, which will help implement evidence based health care interventions. Canara Bank, under this scheme, will support this project by providing loans for these entrepreneurs.

EH News Bureau