KGMU preparing roadmap for healthcare in Uttar Pradesh

The King George’s Medical University (KGMU)is preparing an integrated roadmap for healthcare in Uttar Pradesh that will improve quality of treatment at hospitals in peripheral areas too.

As per this initiative, medical institutes and hospitals will be able to work in coordination. “It is important to know what works in healthcare and this is the job of institutes, while the onus of providing value driven healthcare is upon the hospitals,” said the vice chancellor, prof Ravi Kant, who is supervising the project.

Take example of cardiology, he said. “Lari Cardiology at KGMU should not be purely engaged in treatment but enable the doctors at district hospitals and even community health centres to provide primary treatment to heart attack cases. Merely referring patients from hospitals to KGMU as feeders will not do any good,” said prof Ravi Kant.

The roadmap, he said, would include training opportunities for the doctors who were working in government sector, but lacked learning opportunity.

“Such a planning is necessary as patients come to KGMU from other districts and in Uttar Pradesh, they come even from nearby states. We need to cater to all patients,” said the VC.

To bring about improvement in teaching, the V-C said a common examination pattern was a must in the state so that all students passing out MBBS or PG courses had the same aptitude.

“We have made major changes in examination pattern, which has been appreciated by many pioneer institutes and signed MoU with institutes in 22 countries for research, the impact of which will be visible in future,” he said.

“Reducing treatment time is one key objective of the roadmap as long duration of treatment reduces productivity that can be calculated as revenue loss for the state too,” said prof Ravi Kant. Dr Ved Prakash, medical superintendent, KGMU said if patients were treated at primary centres the expense of treatment would also go down.