Reaching out to the underserved in North TS

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 diagnostic bus introduced by the Pratima Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Karimnagar. As a part of the PIMS initiative ‘Aarogyam Mee Mungitlo’ (Healthcare at your Doorstep) 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 pandemic in 2020,” says PIMS director Harini Boinapally. “The effort is to take best medical facilities to the doorstep of people who can’t afford specialised medicare or who don’t even realise they need a check-up, particularly women who are increasingly getting prone to breast cancer,” the doctor adds.