Gramin Healthcare

According to Rural Health statistics 2014-2015, due to more than 25% shortages of public health centres in rural areas, it is estimated that 50% of beneficiaries travel more than 100 km to access quality care. Gramin Healthcare is accelerating an Alternative Healthcare Delivery access through an Assisted Telemedicine Model. Through combination of digital platform and lean light walk-in-clinics with focus on primary and preventive care, GHC ensures quality primary and preventive care at every underserved pocket. The digital platform ensures every rural citizen has access to doctor consultation, and Walk-in-Health Centre ensures that citizens have all round accessibility and availability of healthcare services through trained healthcare professionals. The asset lightheadedness of the model also enables GHC to replicate the model at an accelerated rate, thereby ensuring its scalability.

According to Household Consumer Expenditure report, rural households with monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) of less than Rs 500, spend an average of Rs 407 on non-hospitalised treatment implying affordability is still one the biggest woes of the common citizen. Gramin Healthcare has created prepaid coverage Annual Family health card which enables a family to access basic healthcare services at price of less than a dollar for an year. This health card also enables them access to medicines, diagnostics, other healthcare products and advanced healthcare services at a subsidised rate.

Apart from accessibility and affordability, accountability also remains one of the biggest pillars of broken healthcare continuum in India. 38% of existing primary public health services in India are non operational.

Hence Gramin Healthcare goes beyond creating access to creating a rural healthcare ecosystem to create community ownership and social behaviour change. Biweekly outreach camps and awareness campaigns along with our partner network, and the rural service delivery chain of Village Health Ambassador ensures last mile connectivity in every village that our health centre caters to. This also ensures hand holding of citizens formally into the healthcare system, and enabling regular follow up with help of paramedics and Electronic Health Record, thereby accelerating healthcare utilisation behaviour. These initiatives have also created rural livelihood options as well as improve healthcare indicators.