Reaching out to the underserved in North Telangana

PIMS rolls out bus to take diagnostic services, doctors to people’s doorstep

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be a bane for many people suffering from other ailments with hospitals focussing on the coronavirus. But people in three north Telangana districts have relatively been at comfort with diagnostics and doctors brought to their doorstep, thanks to a diagnostics bus introduced by the Pratima Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Karimnagar. As a part of the PIMS initiative ‘Aarogyam Mee Mungitlo’ through the Pratima Foundation, state-of-the-art Volvo medical bus equipped with the latest diagnostic equipment have been introduced in Karimnagar, Warangal and Adilabad districts to diagnose non-communicable chronic diseases like cardiac-related diseases and cancer, and to also address chronic health problems. “So far, 500 camps have been organised in the villages since the services were launched during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic last year,” says PIMS director Harini Boinapally.