By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management (RGIIM) aims to improve the health infrastructure in NE Region.
NRHM has given the task of building the proactive public patent healthcare in NE Region with the best practices from Apollo, NEMCARE, Military Hospital and NEIGRIHMS.
RGIIM professors are teaching the doctors in sustainable healthcare project. They also undertake field visit, healthcare research after completing their 14 days class room learning, group exercise, case analysis and simulation. They were groomed under Prof Shajahan, Dean (Planning and Research), RGIIM and Program Chair & Chief Architect for 30 days with the support of Dr Jeet Patwari, Dr Rashna Dass, Dr Maneesh Mehrotra, Dr Tanmoy Das and Dr Debashis Roy (UK).
The field visit helped the participants to see improvement that can be made in context of the inputs given in lectures. It gave them an understanding of the functioning when participants go back to their work places.
During the visits, special emphasis was given on implementation of NRHM, the flagship scheme of the government.
Ganesh Das hospital has evolved into a specialised hospital for Obstetric Gynecology and Pediatric care. It is a referral center with the objective of management of cases referred by primary and secondary center. It offers course in general nursing and midwifery. They observed admissions more than capacity, need to find out why these cases could not be managed in lower levels, no data for analysis to find out from which area cases come. If can be identified concerned DHMO, CHC, PHC can be advised, data supplied shows that only 20-30% cases required specialised management, hence hospital over crowded by cases which could be handled in lower levels.
Also undertake performance audit by independent body, sharing of information, good practices with lower levels, formulation of disaster management plan, setting up of neonatal unit for high risk babies, ICU must be manned by trained personnel, counselling centre for children, formulating of standard operating procedures for admission and treatment , formulation of antibiotic policy to prevent MDRI.
The team also observed that formulation of safety check lists to reduce mistakes and accident, proper management of waste, proper storage of inflammable and radioactive materials, display of building plan for easy access by relief and rescue personnel in case of disaster and proper laundry facilities for the hospital.
The NRHM and State Government have taken the advice of RGIIM for designing and delivering hospital care system which is more patient friendly and socially responsible.
They also realized the potential of their own health infrastructure for grooming a disease free healthy population in Meghalaya by 2020. The participants underwent self analysis on their personality, professional growth/exposure, SWOT analysis of their capabilities for building a new patient friendly healthcare system in Meghalaya during their stay in RGIIM and now will undergo a post training evaluation under Prof Shajahan for assessing the impact of training in their working environment.