This is Dr Sanjay Oak's vision for what we can do to make Mumbai a healthy and happy city
This was a presentation Dr Oak gave at a Free a Billion meeting, on what we can do to improve Mumbai
2. What ails Mumbai?
S Uncontrolled populace
S Unrestricted entry
S Unorganised dwellings.
S Missing Sewage Management
S Toilets…A luxury?
3.
4. What are the root causes?
S Health is not on the priority list.
S Health is not a preferred agenda.
S Insurance coverage is abysmally poor.
S Walls between Public & Private sectors.
S PPPs eyed with suspicion.
S Cleanliness is uncared for.
5. 30 Crore Indian Women Still
Have To Defecate In The
Open. Will The Shame Reach
Before The Stink?
S Cleanliness is to be enforced as a
discipline.
S Toilets : populace ratio.
S More water supply
S Open breathing spaces.
S Community to have ownership of health related projects.
6. Being Healthy
S Hospital for sick children & women
S Hospital for Mental Illnesses & Mental Health
S Hospital for Communicable
diseases.
S Hospital for Geriatric Health
S Hospices & Avedana Ashrams.
7. Day Care Units.
S Augment primary care units.
S Create more Dialysis centers.
S Create more Day care
chemotherapy centers.
S Stress on preventive cardiac
health
S Create more comprehensive
diabetic care centers.
8. Chidren’s Health
S Newborn assessment
S School Health
S Mid day meal programs
S Monitoring malnutirion.
S Adolescent health care programs
S Menstrual Hygiene activities.
9. Womens’ Health
S Breast Diseases.
S Cervical Hygiene & Cancers.
S Nutritional ( Iron Deficiency )
Anaemia
S Safe labor., secure
motherhood.
S Osteoporosis.
10. Water Related Health
Problems
S Treat as a crusade
S Work thorough out the year.
S Make diseases notifiable
S Pass on the preventive responsibility to citizens.
S Fines and Penalties and prosecutions.
11. Hospitals for future
S More ICU beds.
S More stress on day care.
S Links between central & Peripheral – secondary &
tertiary
S Family physicians & Nursing homes are partners.
12. Mohalla Clinics
S Standardize –process, protocols and infrastructure.
S Build brands.
S Technology driven-
vending machine, I pads,
mobile apps.
S Documentation.
14. Public Sector
S More accountability
S More responsiveness.
S Accreditation
S Partnerships.
S Avoid duplications
S Linkages.
15. Private sector
S Responsibility 20% or
even more.
S Laboratories, Imaging sectors.
S Re-invest profits in health.
S Support public sector in dispensing & education.
16. Out of Box!
S Health SEZ .
S Re look at the tax
S State Antibiotic Policy.
S Revise drug formulary.
S State Insurance to cover middle class.
S Railways, Port trust, Airways, Police , hospitals to join hands.
17. Ye Hai Bombay …Meri Jaan.
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