Education Seminars

Along with the healthcare services listed above, the hospital staff will also be giving educational seminars at the camp. These seminars will be built around topics that have been identified by staff at the hospital as stigmatized or unknown by their patient population. These seminars will be conducted by rotating members of the camp staff and will be conducted during camp days. This is to ensure that there will be higher attendance, making it easier for the staff to evaluate the efficiency of the seminar. Depending on the hospital resources and response from the villages, the goal will be to incorporate these seminars on a monthly basis as a service at the hospital as well, rotating based on topic/need of the patients. For Kimaya, we are planning to focus the first set of seminars on maternal child health related topics, and topics that are relevant to the geriatric patient population, as these are the target population identified by the hospital director. These education seminars will be developed by the NGO research staff and modified based on feedback from hospital staff and patients. There will be an evaluation plan following the implementation plan to monitor the progress and efficiency of these seminars.

Selected slides from the maternal nutrition lecture given in May 2024. The slides presented to the patients of Kimaya Hospital were in Marathi.

Camps

In order to increase the rural population’s access to healthcare services, we are partnering with local hospitals to bring their services to the target population. This intervention will be administered in the form of a camp, where the hospital will work with local government to set up their services in a local facility in the village, such as a temple, school, or in the middle of the town square with a tent. The hospital will allocate a camp team, of about 8-10 people, that will be in charge of setting up the camp and being there for the duration of the day delivering the required services. The details of the camp staff rotation and schedule is subject to change depending on the hospital and the needs of the target village population. The NGO team will provide the below template schedule for the hospital to use and alter as they see fit. For Kimaya hospital, we are aiming to conduct at least one camp per month, rotating the location of the camp at the different gram panchayat (village councils) in Ramtek.

The services of the camp will vary depending on the capabilities of each hospital and their resources, but will generally include: check-ups and follow-ups for adults and children, some surgeries, and eye exams as well as ophthalmic surgeries. All surgeries will be scheduled the day of the camp and performed at the hospital on a later date. Each camp will serve approximately 300-500 patients.