DIABETES CARE
PROGRAM IN KASIMBOWLI VILLAGE, MOINABAD MANDAL
– A PILOT PROGRAM- INITIATED ON 12/12/2016
We chose the village - Kasimbowli and initiated
the pilot program of our Diabetes Care Project on the 12th December,
2016 for a population of 657 with 467-target adults of age 20 –years for
screening for BP and DIABETES
(Technology Enabled Health Workers
to Deliver Telemedicine to Rural Homes at Affordable Costs (TETRA) Doctor who
handles a laptop / tablet for this program to give his advice and prescription)
A– BP apparatus and Glucometer
connected to tablet that gives the reading of the villagers who are screened
for BP / DIABETES in their village with subsequent reports of their blood work
for HbA1C and Creatinine if they are found with abnormal reading.
The Doctor can view these reports
and readings and speaks to the villagers concerned online via SHYPE at their
homes in their village. Diagnosed and advised cases are motivated for lifelong
treatment, taking of medicine, exercise and eating healthy food.
The prescribed medicine is being
supplied to diagnosed cases of BP/SUGAR through
104—A GOVT ORGANIZATION—visits
grampanchayats and engage the villagers for testing of BP/SUGAR—with
simultaneous verification of KMRF –records–
Click here for the status in Kasimbowli for Diabetes Care program November 2018