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Private practitioners should help during disasters: Kulaste

The Minister of State for of Health and Family also launched an app to help rescue people during disaster

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Sharing responsibility with the government while dealing with disasters, Faggan Singh Kulaste, Minister of State, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, on Friday appealed the private hospitals and practitioners to actively participate in the cause.

According to the National disaster management guidelines formulated in 2016 by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), private hospitals have an equal responsibility of helping the government during disasters. The provisions laid down under the guidelines are applicable to all healthcare facilities in the government sector and their equivalent counterparts in the private sector. The guidelines say that officials on duty during a disasters should coordinate with local health authorities, neighbouring hospitals and private medical practitioners to ensure continuous provision of essential medical services to the community.

“Private hospitals and practitioners should take part in the social causes such as saving people during disasters. During disasters there is a shortfall of qualified medical practitioners for treating injuries and rehabilitation of patients. Private hospitals and practitioners should also share the responsibility,” said Kulaste.

Kulaste also launched an app —  Real Time Location finder— that can help tracing people who are lost during disasters such as flood through their mobile phones.  The mobile based application has been developed by the Six Sigma High Altitude Medical Rescue which can help locate a person trapped in debris in an earthquake or other disasters when communications fail.

The application is made keeping in mind the rescue operations, in high altitude area where mobile towers network or Internet fails. People or soldiers who get trapped in the debris or snow can easily be helped out using the application.

The concept is based on Satellite based HAM radio used by amateurs to communicate with one another. This can be downloaded to a mobile phone, for continuously sending out a signal which can be detected by special equipment.

“The application does not require mobile network or internet connection to communicate. This is based on satellite which will continuously transmit coded signals but which cannot be used to communicate. The transmitted signals can be detected within a radius of 50 kilo meters.

Six Sigma High Altitude Medical Rescue, Delhi also won “National Award for eGovernance 2016-17 for its services in Uttrakhand Flood, Nepal Earthquake, Shri Amarnath Yatra, Kailash Mansarover Yatra via nathula, Shri Manimahesh Holy Yatra and J&K floods. The award is given for the outstanding use of ICT (Information, Communication and Technology) Path breaking Initiative in public services, where large numbers of people are benefited.

TECH AT RESCUE

The app that has been developed by award winning Six Sigma High Altitude Medical Rescue, can help locate a person trapped in debris in an earthquake or other disasters when communications fail. The concept is based on Satellite based HAM radio used by amateurs to communicate with one another. This can be downloaded to a mobile phone, for continuously sending out a signal which can be detected by special equipment.

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