5) Description of health product/service offering: ORAL HEALTH CARE FOR RURAL PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN AND WOMEN ARE GIVEN PRIORITY, MAINLY ORAL HEALTH AWARENESS AND TREATMENT AT VERY PRIMITIVE STAGE BY IDENTIFYING AND MOTIVATING THE PEOPLE FOR REALISING THE IMPORTENCE OF THEIR TEETH AND MOUTH.

6) Description of innovation: DEFINITE, VERY VERY LEAST COST, AND PEOPLE REALISE THE EFFECT IMMEDIATELY, AND WHEN CHILDREN, WOMEN ARE GIVEN PRIORITY THE WHOLE FAMILY IS FOCUSED, VIGOROUS ORAL HEALTH CAMPAIGN WITH IMMEDIATE TREATMENT WILL MAKE THEM SATISFY AND CONSTANT AVILABILITY, MOTIVATION FROM ALL THE SECTORS WILL LEAD UNIQUE APPROACH TILL ACHIEVING THE GOAL

7) Operational model: MOBILE ORAL HEALTH CARE UNITS WITH CO-ORDINATING NODAL DENTAL HEALTH CENTRES WHICH IN TURN CONNECTED TO SUPER SPECIALITY HIGH END INSTITUTIONS AT HEAD QUARTERS.

8) Human resources: BASIC DENTAL SURGEIONS AFTER SPECIAL PROTOCOL TRAINING WITH HEALTH WORKERS EXPERT IN GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND COMPASSION TOWARDS THE PATIENT WITH QUALITY APPROACH FOR THE MISSION HELP NATION. ALL THE MEDIA PERSONNEL, SCHOOL TEACHERS, HEALTH WORKERS, DENTAL TEACHING INSTITUTIONS ARE UTILISED THEIR LITTLE TIME AND PRESENCE WITH A MOTTO OF SERVICE TO NATION.

9) Key operational partnerships: NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION FUNDS FOR SOCIAL SERVICES ARE OFFERED PREVIOUSLY AND UNDER SUB SERVICE PROVIDERS WHERE OTHER RURAL PROJECTS ARE LINKED WITH MY IDEA PRESENTLY. I HAVE APPROACHED A FINANCIAL FORUM WHO PROMISED LEAST CHARGE OF INTREST BUT DINT GET THRU AS MIDDLE MEN'S MALAFIED INTENTIONS.. IF NOTHING WORKS OUT I HAVE PREPARED TO START ONE MICRO CENTER TAKING A SMALL VILLAGE AS MODEL THEN DUPLICATE THE SAME WORK IN NEXT VILLAGE AND EXPAND AS FINANCIAL DONERS COME FORWARD...

10) Financial Sustainability

          • Fees charged to clients?: No

          • How do you assure affordability?: YES WHEN THE SUPERSPECIALITY AND PERMANENT FUNCTIONAL DEMAND ARISES, THEN ONLY THE BASIC MATEIRAL COST WHICH IS PROCURED BY THE ORGANISATION... SOME TIMES ONLY THE TRANSPORTATION, HANDLING CHARGES IF THE MATERIAL IS DONATED FAR FROM WORKING AREA....

          • Earned incomes as a percentage of operating costs: 0

          • Other funding sources: NOT CALCULATED PRACTICALLY SPEAKING...

          • Strategy for long-term sustainability: AS IT IS FIRST OF ITS KIND IN DENTISTRY AND I AM NOT A FINANCIAL PLANNER, NEEDS YOUR ASSISTANCE ... I FEEL..

11) Current and Future Impact

          • Total number of clients: THOUSANDS..

          • Clients in the past year: 5000

          • Percentage of low-income clients: 95%

          • Impact: REALISED THE IMPORTANCE OF THEIR TEETH, AND RUSHED TO NEAREST DENTAL HEALTH CENTERS FOR FURTHER HELP... THEY INTURN EDUCATED THEIR MATES, ASSOCIATE MEMBERS IMMMEDIATELY, MEDIA COVERAGE CREATED IMPACT FOR FUTURE SUCH PROGRAMMES..

          • Overall "market": WHOLE INDIA NEEDS IN TOTAL RURAL POPULATION AS THERE IS NEGLIGIBLE DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AVAILABLE THRU GOVERNMENT OR PRIVATE CLINICS. AS THE DENTISTRY IS EXPENSIVE THE MODIFIED APPROACH OF LEAST COST STRATEGY WILL HELP 99% OF RURAL POPULATION OF TOTAL INDIA.

12) Scaling up strategy

          • Stage of the initiative: Start Up stage.

          • Expansion plan: SET UP NODAL TREATMENT CENTERS FOR EVERY 50000 POPULATION, THEN EVERY SUCH 5 CENTERS ARE CONTROLLED BY ONE MAIN HOSPITAL IN FIRST 3YRS PERIOD.

13) Policy change: GETTING TOTAL GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE BUDGET SPEND FOR THIS PROGRAMME AND IMPROVE EFFECTIVE UTILISATION OF PEOPLE MONEY FOR PEOPLE...

14) Origin of the initiative: MY SELF AFTER WORKING SINCE MY 3 YEAR DENTAL DEGREE COURSE IN SEVERAL DENTAL CAMPS, ESPECIALLY WORKING WITH MY TEACHERS LIKE DR. SREE RAMA MURTHY, DR. A.S. NARAYANA, DR. B.K REDDY, DR. SRINATH REDDY, DR. VENUGOPAL NAIDU OF GOVERNMENT DENTAL COLLEGE & HOSPITAL HYDERABAD, INDIA BETWEEN 1986-87-88, I REALISED LOT OF NEED IS THERE FOR RURAL POPULATION AND WHILE AFTER GIVING MY FREE SERVICES TO LIONS CLUB, LIONESS CLUB, ROTARY CLUB WHO USED TO ORGANISE AND SERVE THE INTERIOR LOWER INCOME PEOPLE, AND ESPECIALLY SCHOOL CHILDREN WHO EVEN DONT KNOW WHO IS A DENTAL SURGEON OR THEIR EXCISTENCE. AND ONCE WHEN INTERACTING WITH A SCHOOL KID WHO DOES NOT HAVE SLIPPERS, PROPER DRESS, AND HIS PARENTS BOTH ARE DAILY LABOURERS, WHOS FUTURE IS VERY BIG LIKE ONE TIME I AM BROUGHT UP AND THOUGHT OF AT LEAST GIVE LITTLE BIT OF MY KNOWLEDGE OR SKILLS WHICH IS INTURN GOT FROM TOTAL GOVERNMENT FEES PAID MY PEOPLE

Contact Information:
seemakurthi  VENUGOPAL
DENTAL SURGEON- PROSTHODONTIST-PROFESSOR
NOBLE DENTAL CLINIC / CONCEPT DENTAL HOSPITAL
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