Telepsychiatry: Reaching the unreached

Telepsychiatry: Reaching the unreached

Telepsychiatry as an Economically Better Model for Reaching the Unreached: A Retrospective Report from South India

AIM In a resource-poor country such as India, telepsychiatry could be an economical method to expand health-care services. This study was planned to compare the costing and feasibility of three different service delivery models. The end user was a state-funded long-stay Rehabilitation Center (RC) for the homeless. METHODOLOGY Model A comprised patients going to a tertiary care center for clin...

Reaching the Unreached in Sunderbans

The Sunderbans is situated in the Ganges delta, bordering the Bay of Bengal, with a large component being in Bangladesh. The Indian part, which is in West Bengal State has 106 islands and 24 (Parganas) districts. People live on 52 islands and the adjacent mainland, with the uninhabited areas being mainly mangrove forests. The Sunderbans is a very challenging areas to live in, and the area is pr...

Reaching the unreached: enabling Dalit girls to get schooling.

The 1991 census showed a female illiteracy rate of over 39%, requiring a major new effort to include all women, especially the poor, in a program of universal primary education. Institute for Socially Disadvantaged Groups' Educational Improvement (ISDGEI) based in Kolhapur (Maharashtra) is working for social transformation through education. Most disadvantaged are poor Dalit women and girls l...

Eye care in rural communities: reaching the unreached in Sunderbans

Good health is dependent on having services which are accessible and affordable. The Sunderbans in West Bengal, India, is a conglomeration of 106 islands, 52 of which are inhabited, and the remaining of which are home to India’s famous tigers and the world’s biggest mangroves. Small boats are the main mode of transport. Sunderbans has the most deprived and marginalised population in India, with...