Community Health Expert is a program designed to improve the availability and access to quality healthcare for those residing in rural areas, women and elderly and to give a chance to women of low social income group to become Community Health Experts (CHE) and become micro entrepreneurs.
CHE’s will provide curative and preventive health services to the community by using technology and a digital platform to provide health services where accessibility is an issue like tier 3 cities and villages with high population.
The program identifies the locations / districts and does the mapping of healthcare services that can be provided and trains CHE’s from that area to take up providing healthcare services as an occupation post training.
The potential services can be categorized
in the following areas
Primary Care
Leverage local GP network, Teleconsultation, diagnostic tests, treatment plan
Elderly Care
Need assessment, treatment plan, health benefit sessions
Chronic Disease Management
Connect with specialists via tele/ video consultation, follow ups & treatment plan implementation, emergency coordination, e-Health records
Tertiary care support & post operative care
Support for surgeries in partner hospital and rehabilitation and monitoring plan as per discharge
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Other infectious disease tests like malaria, dengue, typhoid
Our Partner
Portea Medical is the training and implementation partner for this program. The program creates market linkages by providing educational regional banners/ posters, door to door awareness campaigns and uses mobile vans to spread awareness.
Unit Economics
The Moringa cultivation can be a game changer in enhancing incomes of farmers. Moringa can help generate income of around Rs 1.5 Lakh / Acre / Annum as opposed to wheat and paddy giving incomes of around Rs. 20-30 K / Acre / Annum.
The initial input costs for farming including seeds, bio fertilizers, bio pesticides etc is roughly around Rs. 50,000 / Acre and approx. Rs. 25,000 recurring per annum for bio fertilizers, bio pesticides etc
The annual output of drumstick pods can be expected to be around 10 Ton / annum per acre of land with dense cropping and average realization of Rs 20,000 / Ton