Global conference on primary healthcare was held in its beautiful capital Astana, Kazakhstan. Astana declaration on primary health care was released.
Health center visits was organised and We got an opportunity to visit model polyclinic at Astana during conference.
This polyclinic is situated at the heart of it's very beautiful and well planned capital Astana. It was built in 2015 and was informed of it being on lines of Alma Alta declaration following principle of primary health care.
This polyclinic has over 130 doctors including gynaecologist, family physician, gastroenterologist, ophthalmologist, surgeon, dermatologist etc who works in 2 shifts daily as per schedule. Daily outpatient census is around 1000 patients.
This center has tele consultation facility taken care by nurses. On entry to the polyclinic each patient gets registered with their national unique Id and receive a password to access their reports online anywhere. This is a pilot work being done and there is plan to expand it Nationwide.
Then triage is done and patient goes directly to the consulting doctor. All specialty are well equipped with state of art diagnostics.
Impressive to note was their disable friendly design of hospital including ramp made for visually impaired and relaxation room to get de-stress.
They also have upper GI and colonoscopy facility and daily around 3 endoscopy done and a minor OT and recovery room which is only for daycare surgery.
Prenatal and Antenatal care is provided at this polyclinic but for delivery they are sent to designated hospital. Similarly for cataract surgery there is designated hospital where patients are reftrred after screening from this hospital.
For outreach they have ambulance, medical train and helicopters. There are special ambulance specially designed for emergency delivery and hemodialysis.
For outreach in periphery the bigger mobile units which have diagnostics facility as well as consultation chambers for physician, ophthalmologist, gynaecologist and dentists are used.
These model hospitals looked impressive well equipped and good model for providing highest quality primary health care services.
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