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"Rather providing a temporary basis to comuunities,
we aim creating a self-run system that allow them
to provide health care unaided"
ASHA's Approach
Creating a framework for community-based self-run medical care delivery model
We are working to create a community-based, self-run medical care model that can deliver comprehensive medical care meeting the needs of people in rural Nepal where medical resources are scarce.
As the name of ASHA suggests, we aim to create "Affordable and Sustainable Healthcare Access," so we are focusing on the ability to run on their own in the Nepal community in the future. For this reason, instead of providing funding to the local community, we provide free software and implementation support to help build the system.
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Rajpur Project
The Rajpur Project, one of our core projects, is mainly working on strengthening the medical institution side and the local government side. ASHA has developed (1) ASHA Connect, an application that supports community health workers (CHWs), people elected health commissioners from the community, (2) Nepal EHR Community Healthcare Edition, which supports information management at medical institutions, and (3) a common database.
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ASHA Connect (Medical questionnaire App for *Community Health Workers)
The patients and the health workers themselves can manage their activities, and simple data transmission to medical institutions is possible. After asking patients a prepared questionnaire and entering the answers, the system will suggest whether the patient should go to a medical institution or not.
*CHW (Community Health Worker)
A health worker in a community. Community Health Workers visit pregnant and postpartum women and patients with non-communicable diseases to check their health status and provide counseling, using the ASHA Connect app. There are currently 10 people working as CHW.
A community health worker (right) conducting a home visit
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Nepal EHR (Information management software for medical institutions)
Software for electronic medical records to collect and record patient information in hospitals in rural Nepal, where medical information is scarce, and in traveling clinics in remote areas. Pharmacies attached to medical institutions provide prescriptions based on these electronic medical records.
A doctor examines a patient at a medical facility called Health Post
The staff gives prescriptions at the attached pharmacy
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Common Database
The software integrates (1) information collected by community health workers from ASHA Connect and (2) electronic medical record data from the Nepal EHR.
The implementation of these three software packages results in the following regional self-run healthcare delivery model.
ASHA Connect
Nepal EHR
Comedic/Doctor and Nurse
Common database
The integrated data will be analyzed by a statistical dashboard called DHIS, and provide medical care that is appropriate for the region as indicated by the statistics.
This community self-run medical care delivery model enables
health workers to expand the base of medical care, improve the quality of care at medical institutions, and grasp and optimize the current situation by managing a lot of patient data at once.
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First Aid Project
Firist Aid aims to create a society where people can protect their health even in areas with limited access to medical care. To achieve, improving health literacy through self-care skills such as first aid and knowledge of family medicine is essential. In Nepal, we conduct a first aid workshop for junior high school students on injuries (bites, bleeding, fractures).
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