PHA-Exchange> For health... Handy Vaid offers remote medical support through hand-held computers.

[George(s) Lessard]

For health
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This comes from Jiva <jiva at jiva.org>, located outside Delhi.  It 
notes, in its education newsletter 'Pragati', that in rural India, there 
are millions of people in need of medical help who don't have 
access to it. Even now, many suffer or die from diseases that could 
have been prevented if medical help had been available.  

Jiva (www.jiva.org) is looking to change this scenario. They have
developed a program called Handy Vaid (www.jiva.org/handyvaid) 
that offers remote medical support through hand-held computers.

In the coming year, they say they're looking "not only to provide 
healthcare to 45,000 people, but to provide a sustainable, scalable 
model that can achieve numbers many times that". Feel you can 
help? Check the site above or contact educational director of the 
Faridabad-based institute, the young American volunteer Steve 
Rudolph <info at jiva.org>  

Incidentally, Pragati (meaning "progress" in Sanskrit) is the periodic 
education and outreach newsletter from Jiva Institute. It contains 
updates on Jiva's activities in the areas of education and 
sustainable development.  

To subscribe to Pragati, send an e-mail to: 
pragati-subscribe at topica.com

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