MOBILE MEDICAL CLINICS
Government of Kerala
vide G.O (Rt)No.461/2012/SCSTDD dated 19/03/2012, an amount of 2.88
crores has been allotted by STDD for the operation of 8 units of Mobile Medical
Clinics at Tribal majority populated areas. KMSCL has invited a Tender No.
KMSCL/EP/R/254/2012/ dated 06.10.2012 and M/s. Ziqitza Health Care ltd was
the L1 bidder. M/s. Ziqitza Health had started operation on 04/12/2013 at
Kollam and Idukki districts on pilot basis and continued the service up to March
2017.
As per direction from
the Director, STDD it was decided to continue the operation of existing MMC’s
till 31/03/2017 and invite a fresh tender for 6 MMC’s including the exiting 2
MMC’s and for the districts of Palakkad, Wayanad Kannur &Kasargode. KMSCL
had invited a fresh tender for the operation of 6 MMC’s in the districts of
Kollam, Idukki, Palakkad, Wayanad, Kannur, &Kasargode on 09/03/2017. The
technical bid was opened on 05/04/2017, M/s. Ziqitza health Care Ltd & M/s.
Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust were the two bidders
participated in the tender. The price bid of the tenderers was opened on
20/04/2017 and M/s. Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust became the
L1 bidder and started operation in the tribal areas of Kollam, Idukki,
Palakkad, Wayanad, Kannur, &Kasargode districts. Vide G.O. (Rt) No. 3127/2017/SCSTDD
dated 18.12.2017 Government issued sanction to start 8 more Mobile Medical
Clinics in the districts of Thiruvananthapuram, Pathanamthitta, Ernakulam,
Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode & Wayanad. M/s. HLFPPT had started their operation
of 1st phase on October 2017 & 2nd phase on
April 2018 respectively.
These 14 vehicles will
visit the tribal hamlets of Kerala and consult the patient and distribute
required medicines. These vehicles have 9 different types of diagnostic
equipment’s, one doctor, one lab technician and one nurse. These vehicles have
to conduct a minimum of 20 campus per month and at least 35 patients per camp.
So far, these vehicles
have given treatment and distributed medicines to more than 3 lakhs patients.
The doctors in these vehicles will give awareness regarding mal nutrition in
children, health care, menstrual hygiene, care before and after delivery. These
vehicles collect data regarding malnutrition mothers and kids, pregnant ladies,
bed ridden patients and all the information regarding the health care of tribal
population and intimate to health department. The ambulance crew will be
identifying the epidemic and inform health department and take preventive
measures to stop the spread of epidemic among tribal population. The
equipment’s available in these vehicles are given as below;
a. Blood
analyzer
b. ECG
machine
c. Stethoscope
d. BP
Apparatus
e. Binocular
Microscope
f. Nebulizer
g. Ophthalmoscope
h. Otoscope
i. Torch
j. Weighing
and height measuring scale
k. Surgical
instruments (List provided as Annexure – X)
l. Fire
extinguisher
These vehicles are
capable of doing 26 different types of blood testing, disease identification
and medicine distribution. The test which can be done in these vehicles is given
as below;
a. Glucose
b. Urea
c. Uric
Acid
d. Creatinine
e. Phosphorus
f. Potassium
K+
g. Sodium
Na+
h. Chloride
Cl-
i. Magnesium
j. Calcium
k. Routine
Blood Examination
l. Cholesterol
m. Triglycerides
n. HDL
o. LDL
p. Alkaline
Phosphatase
q. SGOT
r. SGPT
s. Total protein
t. Albumin
u. Total
Bilirubin
v. Direct
Bilirubin
w. Malaria
test
x. Dengue
test
y. HbsAg
test
z. Routine
Urine Examination
The vehicles are
chosen in a manner in which they can reach almost all tribal hamlets in Kerala.
All these vehicles are GPS enabled and it can be tracked regarding the places
travelled and distance travelled sitting in any part of the world.
These
vehicles make their monthly roaster in consensus with District Medical Officer,
District Program Manager and District Tribal Officer before conducting camps it
will be intimated to tribal coordinator, Anganwadi teachers and Asha
workers of the respective areas so that all the population at the tribal hamlet
is aware about the time and date of conducting medical camp by the mobile
medical unit.
Details of HLFPPT
operations from 1st October 2017 to 31st August
2020 in various districts. The number of Camps and No. of Patients treated are
listed below;
|
Districts |
Total
No. of Camps |
Total
No. of Patients |
|
Kollam |
748 |
27,730 |
|
Idukki |
1,007 |
34,697 |
|
Palakkad-1 |
742 |
27,578 |
|
Wayanad-1 |
764 |
27,785 |
|
Kannur |
757 |
29,457 |
|
Kasaragode |
761 |
27,505 |
|
Trivandrum |
631 |
19,907 |
|
Pathanamthitta |
620 |
23,319 |
|
Ernakulam |
631 |
23,139 |
|
Thrissur |
614 |
20,426 |
|
Palakkad -2 |
624 |
22,541 |
|
Malappuram |
639 |
25,544 |
|
Kozhikode |
610 |
21,770 |
|
Wayanad -2 |
633 |
23,957 |
|
|
9,781 |
3,55,355 |