Sunday, January 19, 2020

Caselet of India Vision 2035: Healthcare






Jamuna Tudu was wearing the bio-sensor vest as she was overseeing her agricultural patch in Armo in Jharkhand. Jamuna was expecting and so the monitoring vest given to her by the PHC at Bermo. She was thinking about names to keep for the baby when she got a call from the Centralized Health Monitoring System that informed her that her vitals indicated she will be delivering soon and should move to the PHC. Her nominated ASHA worker and family also received a similar call, thanks to the AI system that was monitoring over 100 m expectant mothers and senior citizens on a continuous real-time basis, over a complex 7G mobile and satellite system. By the time she reached the local PHC, she received request for consent for the PHC doctors to access her medical records that were stored in the national health system. Her verbal consent over the phone ensured that the PHC was ready with all the medical information required to aid her in her delivery. It turned out that Jamuna had a special condition for which the Medical AI system recommended an expert opinion from Dr. Aleem, who was based out of Dhaka. 

Dr. Aleem specialized in the genotypes of the sub-population that Jamuna came from. Thanks to the trans-national medical interchange system built, it took a few minutes for Dr. Aleem to get into the records of Jamuna to provide his expert opinion on the medical situation. It turned out that Dr. Aleem would have to do an immediate procedure on Jamuna, which he immediately initiated using the remote robotic systems that allowed him to control the robotic surgeon at the PHC at Bermo. Thanks to the IT standards that have been agreed upon between the south Asian countries, it was seamless for Dr. Aleem to do the remote robotic procedure from Dhaka. 
The day ended with Jamuna being a proud mother of a healthy baby. 

Needless to say, the local school systems were automatically informed of a child who will join their school in four years’ time. In the meantime, Jamuna continued to get regular reminders for her child’s inoculation from the Central health System as part of the Cognitive Nation initiative.

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