The pandemic has stressed out the global medical system. However, the most to bear the brunt were people living in remote areas and India is the best example of what transpired then. However, the silver lining in the cloud was the re-emergence of TeleHealth and one of its integral parts, The Mobile Healthcare Units.

This article is aimed at sharing useful points points about the Importance of Mobile Clinic Services.

Understanding Mobile Medical Care?

Mobile Medical Care has taken the medical fraternity by storm and now every hospital would like to have Mobile Medical Units on hand as a definitive source of enhancing business, especially when these fully equipped vans go to the remotest villages and connect with people, to offer high-quality healthcare services.

Mobile Medical Units are designed wherein buses, vans, or trailers are remodelled and equipped with basic medical needs so that can operate independently from or as extensions of existing healthcare organizations.

Why do you require a Mobile Medical Unit?

Mobile health clinics offer a wide range of healthcare services to those people who have limited access to urgent and high-quality healthcare, including urgent care, primary care, and preventive health support.

How does Mobile Medical Care work?

Mobile Medical Care is distributed across logistics and expertise in the form of well-equipped vans and medical expertise. They travel to deep remote villages with basic medical equipment or can even attend to medical emergencies as they observe during their travel. The crew consists of at least a doctor and a nurse, in addition to the pilot. A mobile medical unit is a vehicle well-equipped with emergency and resuscitation service facilities.

The Mobile Medical units operate either by:

• Arranging a medical team with equipment to the site of an accident or illness and immediately offering treatment, or

• Shifting the patient requiring immediate care to the immediately reachable medical centre with advanced facilities, if advanced level of attention is immediately required.

The significance of Mobile Medical Care

Mobile Medical Units have been a game changer when it comes to the way healthcare services are looked at today, more so in the rural sectors where access to good healthcare was either non-accessable or very poor.

These technology driven vehicles have carved a niche for themselves in the way they function. Benefits include:

• Accessable to healthcare at the door steps of remote regions.
• Quick diagnosis.
• Patient awareness
• Vaccination campaigns
• Customized and personal attention
  
  

Conclusion

The Impact of Mobile Healthcare Units is seen with the ever-growing number of hospitals including well-known hospitals introducing in India. Mobile clinic services with their mobility and versatility, bring these benefits to the doorstep by transcending geographical barriers, promoting early detection, and empower individuals to take charge of their health.

Thanks to continued research and development conducted by Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation, there are innumerable creative and innovative options to be explored in this area.

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