Mobility Exercise at MDRF

With the Ursuline Franciscan Sisters !!

Vice Chancellor, Manipal University

With Public Health Experts

Vice Consul, Consulate of the Philippines in India

With Mr Narendran, Vice Consul, Consulate of The Philippines, Chennai, India. 

With the Vice Governor, Province of Iloilo, Republic of The Philippines

With Raul Tupas, Vice Governor, Iloilo, Philippines. 

World Health Day - in Need of Healing !

It only takes a spark to get the fire going. 

As World Health Day unfolds before us again, it is a gentle reminder to re-dedicate ourselves to the growing burden of diseases and to find ways to make healthcare more affordable, more meaningful and more reachable to all corners of the world. 

We live in times where no one really knows the future of a Race, so well protected by medicines. When one form of disease goes, another emerges. This calls for a more solid approach and a more amicable approach towards health. 

The Government spending on GDP in many countries needs a reconsideration once more. Health will need to be placed on the top-most tables of governance and it will need to be led by doctors and not people who may not know the best of healthcare. They can always form part of a panel and task-force to brainstorm the deliberations. 

While we cannot remove our focus from Maternal and Child Mortality, we will also need to build a growing bridge for Communicable and non communicable diseases. The on-going commitments of NGO's and other concerned organizations need to be strengthened under a common platform through a committed Health Ministry in every country. 

Doctors need to be trained in Medical indemnity and medical insurance and micro insurance formats so that , their decisions towards patient care can be thought of in these directions. 

Dedicated Medical students should be involved in Health reform policies. Pharmaceutical companies can have their profits through honest commerce, but let it also be more altruistic towards society. 

It behoves of every Healthcare person to give back to society what society cannot ever give you. It is a clarion call to meet this end in view. 

Wish you a meaningful day. 

Dr Edmond Fernandes,

Founder and CEO,

Health Concern Foundation(R).

In Chennai

With Dr Williams and Dr Anjana in Chennai. 

Finger Length and Prostate Cancer Linked, Our Pilot Study.

Health Concern Foundation to deliberate on Affordable Healthcare on 12th April, 2014

Health Concern Foundation(R) will be celebrating the Foundation Day on 12th April, 2014 at Milagres Senate Hall, Mangalore, India.

The Concept note on Affordable Healthcare is :

Background:

Growing cost on hospitalization and medical treatment are the leading reasons for bankruptcy among poor families in India. Healthcare services are also not easily accessible especially in rural areas. Thus there is a dire need to improve affordability and access to healthcare services.

The Think Tank Foundation Day Celebration of Health Concern Foundation on ‘affordable healthcare’ is a platform to engage, ideate and discuss opportunities to provide universal healthcare.  It aims to enable participants to learn from experiences, share success stories and create models & frameworks that will improve coverage and affordable access to healthcare services. The major objective is to review and evolve sustainable models and ideas to improve the sustainable livelihoods of low-income groups and the Indian Middle class.

Focus Area:

1)      Improving access to Health

2)      How to Make Doctors Socially Responsible

3)      How can doctors and Patients influence Drug pricing

4)      Youth engagement in Health reforms

5)      Affordable Medicines and diagnostics

6)      Involvement of Corporates and Private players to build a new Health order.

Expected Outcomes:

1.       To develop a continuous platform and knowledge base for affordable access to healthcare  in India by engaging with key stakeholders representing the government, health care workers, NGOs, manufacturers, researchers and academicians.

2.       The final deliverables are:

o   Evaluate an optimal platform model for continuous interaction between key stakeholders fostering access to healthcare.

o   Identify successful approaches and concepts across industries to improve the affordability of access to healthcare.

o   Build new ideas/concepts and recommendations on how to improve the affordable access to healthcare.

This is an initiative of Health Concern Foundation(R) during its Foundation Day Celebration on 12^th April, 2014. We will form a recommendation through the deliberations that emerge from this effort.