Lifeline Express: Hospital Train in Rural India

2021 ◽  
pp. 251660422197724
Author(s):  
Jashim Uddin Ahmed ◽  
Saima Siddiqui ◽  
Asma Ahmed ◽  
Kazi Pushpita Mim
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Rural India ◽  
Medical Team ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
The People ◽  
Medical Facilities

India’s medical service industry is an emerging force in Southeast Asia, which should be recognized. A large portion of the country’s GDP is being earned through this sector. Paradoxically, India’s rural sphere has always been highly deprived of medical facilities even in rudimentary level. This huge imbalance was previously an issue for India to reach to a footing through innovation. India still being a developing country has majority of people living in rural areas where quality healthcare is not only difficult to avail but sometimes even hard to access. In such circumstances, an initiative like Lifeline Express (LLE) has provided the people with access to quality healthcare which has been crucially needed. It is a very simple idea but incredibly complex in terms of execution throughout the whole region. The LLE is a hospital which moves throughout rural India in a form of a fully equipped train. Since 1991, this initiative in India has generated some commendable projects through which it has served many rural Indians. Through this case, it will be comprehensible of how the train and the medical team function and will show the limitations and challenges healthcare in India is facing and how LLE has proved its fantastic ability to fight with the constraints and make healthcare reach the doorsteps of the rural people. Despite the challenges and limitations, it is also been revealed how the journey of LLE has grown from a three-coach train to seven-coach train where patients get treatment of many diseases from the early 1990s to this day.

scholarly journals Lifeline Express: Hospital Train in Rural India

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Jashim Uddin Ahmed ◽  
Saima Siddiqui ◽  
Asma Ahmed ◽  
Kazi Pushpita Mim
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Rural India ◽  
Medical Team ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
The People ◽  
Medical Facilities

India’s medical service industry is an emerging force in Southeast Asia, which should be recognized. A large portion of the country’s GDP is being earned through this sector. Paradoxically, India’s rural sphere has always been highly deprived of medical facilities even in rudimentary level. This huge imbalance was previously an issue for India to reach to a footing through innovation. India still being a developing country has majority of people living in rural areas where quality healthcare is not only difficult to avail but sometimes even hard to access. In such circumstances, an initiative like Lifeline Express (LLE) has provided the people with access to quality healthcare which has been crucially needed. It is a very simple idea but incredibly complex in terms of execution throughout the whole region. The LLE is a hospital which moves throughout rural India in a form of a fully equipped train. Since 1991, this initiative in India has generated some commendable projects through which it has served many rural Indians. Through this case, it will be comprehensible of how the train and the medical team function and will show the limitations and challenges healthcare in India is facing and how LLE has proved its fantastic ability to fight with the constraints and make healthcare reach the doorsteps of the rural people. Despite the challenges and limitations, it is also been revealed how the journey of LLE has grown from a three-coach train to seven-coach train where patients get treatment of many diseases from the early 1990s to this day.

scholarly journals Rising Cyber Crime in Rural India: A Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-205
Author(s):  
Syed Ubaid ◽  
Shakil ◽  
Mohammed Talha Alam ◽  
Shahab Saquib Sohail
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Rural India ◽  
Cyber Crime ◽  
Cyber Attack ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Government Websites

This paper analyses the increasing cyber-crime in India, especially in the rural areas, andcyber-attacks on service-providing government websites. Cyber-attacks are viewed within the context of important events to reveal the effectiveness of cyber-attack campaigns. The analysis highlights the range of cyber issues experienced during the lockdown in the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper shows how work-from-home campaigns digitalize the population, and how rural people become the victim of cyber-attacks. The analysis also emphasizes possible solutions to strengthen cyber security.

scholarly journals A Need of Good Governance in Public Health Sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 507-508
Author(s):  
Runa Paul
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Sector ◽  
The People ◽  
Medical Facilities ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Good Food

A good governance is the essence of a better economic growth. It enhances the satisfaction level of the multitude with efficiency and effectiveness. It promotes affordability and availability. In the health sector there is a need of good governance so that we can promote inclusive growth and provide healthcare to all. The people of India deserve good food, shelter, housing and medical facilities. The private healthcare is unaffordable but due to the provision of quality healthcare people prefer to take their services. The present paper focused on the ineffectiveness of the governance in the public health sector and suggested points to remove loopholes through good governance.

scholarly journals Can Indigenous Foods Play Role as ‘the Food of Survival’?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatma Osman Ibnouf
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
Rural People ◽  
The People ◽  
Indigenous Foods ◽  
Traditional Processing ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
Collective Survival

The indigenous foods are ‘the way of life’ of the people in rural Sudan and are considered ‘the food of survival’. Traditional/indigenous foods provide inexpensive, safe, nutritious foods throughout the whole year. These indigenous foods contribute to diversify of the diet of rural people in normal times and alternative foods that crucial to their survival during times of food shortage. Indigenous foods have the nutritional values; are both palatable and enjoyable, in addition to their potential health benefits. Indigenous techniques to process and preserve food materials are rooted in the traditional cultural, are economically practicable and more appropriate for the local contexts. Indigenous foods and traditional processing techniques are based on empiricism and bring to bear a sense of the connections of indigenous people to their surrounding environment. This is important as it enables those people to relate their knowledge to solving problems in their context. It indicates how indigenous people are in ‘harmony’ with their surrounding environments for collective survival. The paper gives a brief description of some indigenous foods from various rural areas of Sudan.

scholarly journals AMBON DI BAWAH ORDE BARU: TRANSFORMASI KAPITALISME PADA MASYARAKAT PINGGIRAN

DIALEKTIKA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Hatib Kadir
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
New Order ◽  
Karl Polanyi ◽  
Rural People ◽  
The People ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT: Using the approach of Karl Polanyi (2014), this paper studies three great transformation take place in Ambon Island during the 1970s t0 1990s. Those transformation are on land, money and transportation. Money transforms local people to acquaint with the price system. On the other hand, the needs of consumption increase when money is introduced. Using money, local Moluccans can send their children to the higher school as well as allocate to buy more machinery works. The machinization also accelerates rural people to work faster and more efficient. The questions from this paper is who are the people who bring all of these social and economic transformations? The author found that the coming of voluntary migrants from Sulawesi, Java, and Padangese any other Island in Indonesia play significant role to change the Moluccan system economic and social systems. These migrants dominate exchanges from the production level in the orchards to the rural and urban marketplaces. They play both as traders and middlemen. The Butonese, migrants from Sulawesi, are the most significant suppliers and middlemen that bring rural commodities to sell to the Chinese Moluccan in the city. Chinese Moluccan mostly are shop owners who do not have a direct in touch with the local Moluccan landowners in the rural areas. They also play a role as moneylender for Butonese to buy cloves and nutmeg from the rural areas. Therefore, it is Butonese that have direct contact with the rural Moluccans. Despite the authoritarian regime of the New Order, in the economic field, the State tend to let people to constitute their own business, before finally in the mid of 1990s, The Clove Support and Trading Board (BPPC) under the authority of Tommy Suharto, the son of Indonesian President, took over the business by monopolize the clove trade system. Keywords: Economic Transformation, ethnic economy, exchanges, middlemen, monetization.

scholarly journals Role of Microfinance and Microcredit in Transforming the Rural India

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 4266-4268
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Water Education ◽  
The People ◽  
Quality Of Living ◽  
Money Transfer ◽  
The Impact

Growth of a nation does not refer to the development of infrastructure, innovations and technology. In fact it is truly associated with the development of all citizens in terms of their standard of living. A country travels in development path if all the people are caught up in the process of growth and enjoy quality of living by accessing to basic facilities of life such as food, clothing, housing, health, clean water, education, employment and good natural and social environment. It all happens when economy is sound and have consistent growth rate. In our country the economic growth rate is directly depends on the development of rural areas as it is the backbone to the economy. Providing financial support to rural people is a Hercules task as they do not maintain any formal and necessary documents, failing which banks or any other financial institutions do not grant even a single penny. In this connection, Microfinance and Microcredit institutions helps the people in rural areas with a variety of services with minimal documentation. It includes loan, savings, credit, money transfer, insurance, pension and other financial innovations etc. In this research an attempt is made to ascertain new approaches to measure the impact of microfinance and microcredit in the development of rural areas.

scholarly journals Influence of Rural Electrification for Development of Quality of Life:A Preliminary Investigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anand Vijay Satpute ◽  
◽  
E. Vijay Kumar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Rural Electrification ◽  
Rural People ◽  
The People

Evaluating the importance of electricity in one’s life is the key to success. The present article brings light on the role of electrification not only for meeting the mere utilities but also on the enhancement of capability of rural people of India. Electrification can play a vital role in accelerating the quality of life of the people. Two villages in Nashik district within the state of Maharashtra have been taken for the qualitative evaluation. The study uncovered the fact that, electricity may be treated as a climacteric means to enhance people’s decisions and opportunities within the trailing of quality lives. In addition to this, it also uncovered that the advantages of electricity don’t seem to be uniformly benefitted all the families within the villages taken for the survey. Government policies for rural electrification should be backpedalled and the conventional definition of electrification in rural areas must be integrated with the scope of usage of solar photovoltaic. This article additionally suggests that the policies are to be made to increase easy access of electricity by rural people for adding values in their quality of life and enhancing their capabilities in present socio-political environment.

scholarly journals Constraints Faced by the Farm Based Agri-Input Enterpreneurs in Central Telangana Region

2021 ◽  
pp. 118-125
Author(s):  
B. Srishailam ◽  
B. Jirli ◽  
Keesam Manasa
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Diagnostic Skills ◽  
Farming Community ◽  
The People ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
And Storage

In a situation when farmers’ suicide and distress sell still remain the key issues in India’s Agricultural scenario, we are dreaming of achieving a double income for the farming community. This gap in the income level of farmers can only be bridged by adopting newer income generating opportunities like establishing Farm based enterprises. Farm based enterprises are the vehicles for transforming rural India, these enterprises are maintained by the agripreneurs and this are the people enthusiastically more interestedly established units in agriculture especially in rural areas. Main aim of my research is to knowing about the constraints faced by the farm based agri input entrepreneurs and their impact on rural people especially on farmers of the area. The research investigation was conducted in Central Telangana region of Sanga Reddy district it consists of three revenue divisions namely Zahirabad, Narayanakhed and Sanga Reddy. From each revenue division Nine blocks were selected purposively using simple random sampling method thus making up a total of 26 blocks. From out of 26 Blocks each block 09 respondents interviewed and collected data with help of specially designed interview schedule it constitutes a total of 234 farm based agri-input entrepreneurs. The exploratory research design was used for the study. the objective to know the problems experienced by the Farm based Agripreneurs to start and run the farm-based enterprises. Constraints of agripreneurs stated that inadequate field diagnostic skills, lack of seed availability and storage facilities, high transportation costs, lack of financial facilities etc. are major Constraints faced by the farm based agri input entrepreneurs.

scholarly journals Influence of Rural Electrification for Development of Quality of Life:A Preliminary Investigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (06) ◽  
pp. 1056-1069
Author(s):  
Anand Vijay Satpute ◽  
◽  
E. Vijay Kumar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Rural Electrification ◽  
Rural People ◽  
The People

Evaluating the importance of electricity in one’s life is the key to success. The present article brings light on the role of electrification not only for meeting the mere utilities but also on the enhancement of capability of rural people of India. Electrification can play a vital role in accelerating the quality of life of the people. Two villages in Nashik district within the state of Maharashtra have been taken for the qualitative evaluation. The study uncovered the fact that, electricity may be treated as a climacteric means to enhance people’s decisions and opportunities within the trailing of quality lives. In addition to this, it also uncovered that the advantages of electricity don’t seem to be uniformly benefitted all the families within the villages taken for the survey. Government policies for rural electrification should be backpedalled and the conventional definition of electrification in rural areas must be integrated with the scope of usage of solar photovoltaic. This article additionally suggests that the policies are to be made to increase easy access to electricity by rural people for adding value to their quality of life and enhancing their capabilities in the present socio-political environment.

scholarly journals SURVEY AND DOCUMENTATION OF ETHNOVETERINARY HEALTHCARE PRACTICES USED BY RURAL PEOPLE OF AKOLA DISTRICT OF MAHARASHTRA

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 306-318
Author(s):  
Sangeeta Jambu ◽  
Manjusha Wath
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Ethnoveterinary Medicine ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Mouth Diseases ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Aged People ◽  
The People ◽  
Cattle Diseases ◽  
Intestinal Worm ◽  
The Common

The people of rural areas still depend to a large extent upon plants and household remedies for treating their animals. The present study deals with the survey and documentation of ethno veterinary medicinal plants used by rural people from Akola district. The ethnoveterinary information included with local name, family, parts used, local uses and its mode of preparation for ethnoveterinary treatments. The common cattle diseases of the area reported  are foot and mouth diseases, black quarter, fracture, Diarrhoea and Dysentery and dysentery, blood dysentery, intestinal worm, tympani, prolapsed uterus, retention of placenta, wound, maggotted wound,  fever, snake bite, eye diseases, ectoparasite (tick), galactagogue etc. In this study we observed that old aged people have more knowledge and experience particularly in remote areas for curing veterinary ailments. Ethnoveterinary medicine can provide an opportunity for new drug development.

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