New Delhi: The SAMRIDH Health the blended finance facility has committed Rs 3.2 crore for critical care hope to help expand your hub-and-spoke with technology Tele-ICU platform for health care providers in tier two and three cities to deliver critical care services.
The ‘Tele-ICU’ platform aims to enable a certified intensive care physician to remotely manage 60-80 ICU patients at multiple locations. With this collaboration, Critical Care Hope aims to incorporate 12 partner hospitals in tier two and three cities in Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh to provide critical care services.
Sharing his thoughts on the partnership, Himanshu Sikka, Director of Projects, SAMRIDH, and Director of Strategy and Diversification, IPE Global, said: “The uneven distribution between urban and rural areas of health infrastructure and the workforce of the India, with a strong bias towards urban cities, has been a critical obstacle in the provision of equitable health services. Through this collaboration, our goal is to ensure timely intervention of intensive care experts for patients in levels 2, 3, and rural areas, where there are currently limited or no tertiary care facilities.”
The hub-and-spoke model proposed by Critical Care Hope will create dedicated command centers called HOPES (Health Outcomes-Focused Prevention and Evaluation System), each of which will act as a centralized administration (hub) for patients in need of critical care at sites remotes (radios). HOPES centers aim to bring together ICU specialists, advanced medical technologies, expertise and local hospitals on one platform, offering 24/7 patient monitoring to enable data collection and analysis, and offer protocolized care and treatment interventions.
Hailing the collaboration, Shailesh Jhawar, Founder and Director of Critical Care Hope, said: “The problem with our healthcare system is that we face significant challenges in closing the urban-semi-urban-rural healthcare gap. Technological innovations in healthcare are imperative to close these gaps and bring value-based solutions to underserved areas. With the support of SAMRIDH, we will be able to scale our operations and continue to innovate and provide last-mile clinical services.”
