“I have not been able to put paddy seeds for plantation while others [in the village] have already done this. Women in the village don’t even have time to go for check-ups, but they want me to stay with them from the morning to the evening during their labour. What should I do? I […]
Category: Community care
Lessons from rural Bolivia: the United States must rethink community-based medicine
As I witnessed a team of Bolivian nurses venture on-foot into the rural outskirts of their communities to administer childhood vaccinations, antiparasitic medications, and wound care, I quickly recognized the imperative to extend this approach to community medicine in the United States. These nurses operate from a primary-health clinic created under the Sistema Único […]
Integrating community based rehabilitation services with primary health care: a need of the hour
Rehabilitation has often been incorrectly perceived as an expensive and specialised clinical service required only by a selected few, suffering from disability. Whenever one hears the word “Rehabilitation”, the image created in one’s mind is of an institutional setup with state-of-the-art equipments and highly trained manpower located in an urban setting. As per the […]