RGUHS mulls bringing out app for its flagship Jeeva Raksha programme
TNN | Jan 2, 2020, 08.29 AM IST
MANGALURU: Bengaluru-based Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences' (RGUHS) flagship life skills saving programme - Jeeva Raksha will be rolled out as a mobile app. With first batch of around 6000 students trained in this programme set to pass out at the end of current academic year, the university will create their online data base, geo-tag their phones as a precursor to rolling out the app that will endeavour to provide real time help to the needy.
Shivanand Kapashi, registrar of RGUHS told TOI that the Jeeva Raksha programme launched in 2014 has been made compulsory for graduates undergoing their internship. With the first batch of trained students passing out this year, Kapashi said the university will have to wait for at least two-more years before it can have sizable number of trained first responders who can react to a medical emergency that gets flagged to them via the app.
The university is toying with the idea of rolling this App, that is presently at a conceptual stage, on a trial basis in Bengaluru and Mangaluru that has sizable number of medical colleges and will present the perfect pool for trained manpower to roll out this service. The idea is to ensure that a person trained in life saving skills can reach the emergency site within 15 minutes, which in a place like Bengaluru might be a bit hard to achieve, he surmised.
With geo-tagging of a trained life saver, the app will flash the emergency on to their cell phones and a person nearest to the site could go over and help the person, he said. The advanced lifesaving course mandatory for medical students and basic lifesaving course that others including those opting for allied health sciences courses study deals with topics such as burns, ingesting poison, snake bites, respiratory issues and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, he said.
Dr S Sacchidanand, vice-chancellor, RGUHS said the university spent the first three years in developing around 250 master trainers for this programme who in turn trained teachers of medical colleges in the state. Students are made to study the techniques in simulation labs that are being set up in government medical colleges, he said, adding the union government, NITI Aayog has appreciated the RGUHS model and marked it for replication across India.
TNN | Jan 2, 2020, 08.29 AM IST
MANGALURU: Bengaluru-based Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences' (RGUHS) flagship life skills saving programme - Jeeva Raksha will be rolled out as a mobile app. With first batch of around 6000 students trained in this programme set to pass out at the end of current academic year, the university will create their online data base, geo-tag their phones as a precursor to rolling out the app that will endeavour to provide real time help to the needy.
Shivanand Kapashi, registrar of RGUHS told TOI that the Jeeva Raksha programme launched in 2014 has been made compulsory for graduates undergoing their internship. With the first batch of trained students passing out this year, Kapashi said the university will have to wait for at least two-more years before it can have sizable number of trained first responders who can react to a medical emergency that gets flagged to them via the app.
The university is toying with the idea of rolling this App, that is presently at a conceptual stage, on a trial basis in Bengaluru and Mangaluru that has sizable number of medical colleges and will present the perfect pool for trained manpower to roll out this service. The idea is to ensure that a person trained in life saving skills can reach the emergency site within 15 minutes, which in a place like Bengaluru might be a bit hard to achieve, he surmised.
With geo-tagging of a trained life saver, the app will flash the emergency on to their cell phones and a person nearest to the site could go over and help the person, he said. The advanced lifesaving course mandatory for medical students and basic lifesaving course that others including those opting for allied health sciences courses study deals with topics such as burns, ingesting poison, snake bites, respiratory issues and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, he said.
Dr S Sacchidanand, vice-chancellor, RGUHS said the university spent the first three years in developing around 250 master trainers for this programme who in turn trained teachers of medical colleges in the state. Students are made to study the techniques in simulation labs that are being set up in government medical colleges, he said, adding the union government, NITI Aayog has appreciated the RGUHS model and marked it for replication across India.
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