This document proposes a solution to provide affordable healthcare consultation to rural areas in India by connecting doctors and patients globally through the internet. A local rural center would be equipped with basic diagnostic equipment to record patient information and symptoms, which could then be uploaded and reviewed by enrolled doctors available online at certain times each day to provide consultations for a nominal fee. The goal is to improve healthcare access for 70% of India's population living in rural villages by establishing an online medical consultation network through local centers.

2. Arun Prakash Goyal
Sr. Vice President
MPS Limited

3. The Problem Statement
• Recent Indian census estimates reveal that the
health worker density in rural areas is 11 per
10,000 people compared in 42 in urban areas.
• 31% of the population travel more than 30kms
seeking healthcare in rural India.
• Reports show that rural healthcare expenditure
has been increasing at an annual rate of 13.3%.

4. The Solution
• Provide affordable healthcare consultation by connecting doctors and patients
globally on the internet
• A local centre equipped with electronic diagnostic equipment like stethoscope,
ECG, Otoscope, Sphygmomanometer, Ophthalmoscope, thermometer etc. (basic
kit) will be made available at rural / local centers to record basic diagnostics.
– System will be placed in rural / local centers where any trained operator (not
necessarily a doctor) can record the readings, symptoms and upload into the
system.
– Doctors who enroll into the program will have access to this data to offer
consultation.
– For example doctors, willing to do social service, from across the globe will be
available on the net at specified timings for people to log-on and get
consultation. Fee could be as nominal as Rs 5/consultation. The consultation
could be via skype on e-transmission networkProvide affordable healthcare
consultation by connecting doctors and patients globally on the internet

5. The Solution
Internet
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Medical kit

6. Solution – Functionality
Enable patients
to search for
specialists in
areas of
Allopathy,
Homeopathy,
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Enrollment of
doctors to
provide
consultations

7. The Constraints
• Availability of Internet at specified timings
(Electrical power). But this can be addressed
through Solar energy based power supply
• Availability of the doctors at specified timings

8. Implementation Steps
• In the initial stage a pilot is proposed to be conducted
in small community at locations with Vodafone
network.
• Doctors with different specializations can be available
on specific timings across different locations
• People can log on to the network for general
consultation as well
• In critical cases where guidance is required, the data
can be pulled by central server which can be hosted at
Vodafone cloud servers and data can be available to
specialists

9. Implementation – Phase 1- Web
Application

10. Technologies Used
• Vodafone Internet connectivity
• Vodafone Video Conferencing
• Web and Mobile Application
• Vodafone cloud services

11. Outcomes
• Approximately 70% of India’s population , which amounts
to 833 million people live in 636,000 villages. Our system
aims to provide high quality healthcare consultation to this
huge population.
• Help doctors increase their social impact in rural and
remote locations.
• Create a database of medical history of rural patients.
• Trained operators locally can connect with doctors on the
net
• Can be hubs for immunization programs whenever needed
• Will help improve mortality and health of people
• The network can be extended to provide Legal Help

12. Thank you