Nachiket Mor: If we, in India are to extend comprehensive care to our entire country, models such as the one built by Dinesh Pendharkar offer perhaps the only scalable pathway forward.
Nachiket Mor, Visiting Scientist at The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health, shared on LinkedIn:
“It is well known that India has a severe shortage of specialist talent in healthcare. It is, however, also that case India produces the largest number of undergraduate doctors, all of whom are formally trained in medicine and surgery. Several of these undergraduate doctors practice in hospitals in our more remote districts and are eager to do more advanced work.
One very important pathway for them to follow is obtaining a postgraduate degree/diploma and becoming a specialist. Another way that allows them to stay in the districts where they currently work is through partnerships of the kind that Dinesh Pendharkar has built operating from his hub in the Cancer Care Centre in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. Swagata Yadavar has covered this work in her brilliant piece.
Cancer is a complex condition, and if such an approach can work for cancer, then perhaps it can be extended to several other conditions as well, opening the way for comprehensive partnerships between smaller-town hospitals and larger national-level centres of excellence. Projects like 10BedICU (Srikanth Nadhamuni, Bisoya Loitongbam) and companies like Cloudphysician (Dhruv Joshi) have already shown, for example, that remote support can enable ICU care.
If we, in India are to extend comprehensive care to our entire country, models such as the one built by Dinesh Pendharkar offer perhaps the only scalable pathway forward.”
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Source: Nachiket Mor/LinkedIn
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