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HealtHcare using innovation &

technology in healthcare

across the nation, especially the north east, with wide Awarded for quality India has set a goal to increase its public health strengthening the primary healthcare centers and
urban-rural variations and limited access to medical healthcare service: spending to 2.5% of its gross domestic Product (gdP) adopting best practices with regard to ante and post-
services, the people in general face a host of challenges, by 2025. It promises better healthcare facilities for natal care, labour room practices and nutrition for
the most crucial being lack of doctors and specialists. Best Tea Garden Hospital rural India, but there is still a large gap which urgently mother and child is a two pronged strategy adopted
aPPl Foundation, along with its partner organizations, (National Health Mission needs to be bridged where Private Public Partnership by aPPlF at its intervening communities. along with
tries to bridge the gap between healthcare requirement Compliant) Nahorani Tea can step in to bring the much needed change. aPPl saatHII we are improving on ground deliverance
and its availability. the Foundation’s objective is to Garden Hospital Foundation (aPPlF) has dedicated itself to reaching of better service to pregnant, lactating mother and
newborn infants. WIsH Foundation and gaIn is
provide access to quality healthcare in the rural areas in 3rd Best Tea Garden quality high-tech healthcare solutions in the remotest extending its technical expertise to motivate the
corners of the north east.
north east India. Hospital – Nahartoli Tea communities especially women to adopt high nutrition
Garden Hospital aPPlF has been one of the pioneers in assam value dietary practices.
to introduce tele-medicine in remote locations.
this was possible due to the equipment’s in the e over the years aPPlF is keenly profiling the
Healthcare centres (eHc’s) and technology provided demographically prevalent diseases in order to
by Hewlett Packard enterprise (HPe) which has prevent, cure and ultimately eradicate the prevalence
facilitated in reaching quality healthcare services of the diseases in the communities. We are actively
in form of tele-consultation with medical specialist engaged in generating awareness, preventing and
based at the referral Hospital in chubwa, dibrugarh treating fungal disease which is a chronic problem in
with five rural areas in assam and north Bengal. assam through our latest initiative of 3 F project. In
our belief that technological innovation is key to near future, we hope to frame initiatives to tackle other
better healthcare service has once again made us diseases to build communities with good health.
the very first organization to transform tea garden the stride we have made in the genre of healthcare
Hospitals (tgH’s) into smart Hospitals. In partnership has been possible due to active collaboration with
with WIsH Foundation, smart clinics at 6 tgH’s is experts in the domain. We hope to
now enabled with electronic medical recording continue to be the forerunners
(eHr) system which includes biometric recognition, in aiding our communities
maintaining electronic Health record (eHr) of the with latest healthcare
entire population of the tea garden community innovations and solutions
and the entire functioning of the hospital, from with the support of our
out Patient department (oPd) to Pharmacy being
Our strength lies in reaching best healthcare digitized. a range of point of care devices at the valued partners.
solutions to the rural communities
laboratories is being used for diagnosis for which the mr Deepak Atal
patients no more need to travel to urban facilities. Vice Chairman
our future pursuit it to enable each smart Hospital APPL Foundation
to serve patients with healthcare solution as urban
healthcare centres.
Infant and maternal mortality has been an
incessant problem in rural India especially in assam.

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