Vision: Health for all.
Mission: Make healthcare accessible to the disadvantaged.
Core values: Empathy, integrity and equity.

Why DoctorNet?

• Socio-economically backward patients have inadequate healthcare access

  • • The Healthcare Access and Quality (HAQ) index serves as a metric for evaluating a nation's healthcare performance. In 2016, India ranked 145 on this index, lower than Bangladesh, Sudan, and Equatorial Guinea 

    • The doctor population ratio in rural India is four times lower than urban India

• They are constrained by the  information, knowledge, monetary, access and empathy gaps to get reliable medical advice and treatment

• For curative health, there is a big distance between patients in remote regions and treatment providers - both literally and metaphorically.

What?

• Non-profit that makes healthcare accessible to socio-economically backward people.

• Bridges the information and empathy gaps in healthcare

• Bridge between the (a) empathetic health professionals and (b) rural patients (referred by well-intentioned organizations)

• Informal network of 600+ doctors who help the patients get reliable medical advice and treatment. 

How?

• DoctorNet associates with individuals/organizations/networks/rural primary care centers/tribal hospitals who do meaningful interventions for the disadvantaged people in rural/tribal areas.

• They come across patients in need of curative health advice/treatment and refer them.

• DoctorNet volunteers interact with the appropriate doctors and guide them to get advice and hospitalized treatment in government hospitals (or) in private hospitals using the Government insurance scheme / subsidized treatment.

Where are the patients from?

• Rural/tribal regions across 25 districts in Tamil nadu.

• Tribal regions in Tamil nadu and in Idukki district, Kerala

Is curative healthcare guidance the main focus?

Various dimensions of our work listed below.

What's the impact?

Curative health guidance
2400+ patients have been guided till June 2024 across Tamil nadu and few places in Kerala.  Many were provided guidance for hospitalized treatment for serious illness. Of them, 80 percent are from rural areas. 8% are from tribal areas and 12% from urban region.
Our strength is in providing the required emotional strength throughout the treatment phase.

School health education in few Government schools, Coimbatore

Patient support groups

Three patient support groups (renal, cancer, disabled) for mutual emotional support and livelihood guidance. Led by people who have recovered from their respective illness.

Community health

Intervention in a marginalized community of few hundred disadvantaged households in Coimbatore - to enable them to understand, prioritize and address community health needs

Collaboration with the government systems

Providing emotional support to high risk pregnant women - referred by 89 PHCs in Coimbatore district.

Pandemic

Second wave: Guided 150+ COVID patients by tele-consulting and followup in 400+ villages across Tamil nadu through AID India; Helped with early identification of COVID and provided guidance/emotional support during home isolation.

First wave: Provided free tele-counseling helpline service for the people to cope with pandemic related anxiety/stress/fear. 24 professional psychologists counseled 400 distress callers from small towns and villages across Tamil nadu.

Updated on June 2024

Would you like to collaborate with us?

Please email doctornet.india@gmail.com  / or call 94426 39490