Ideas

Post date: Aug 20, 2010 11:33:40 PM

Basically i would like to do something important one day and these are ideas that in my opinion  are important enough to be treated as important.

Idea 1.  Make site to harvest relatives approach

    make a site that can connect the cluster families and which enables members of family being able to login and just see what ever is happening to all of them at a glance. But what's more important is its usage in a very Indian way, as contacts. We all know how much family contacts are used in India from job hunts to marriages to health care in hospitals and school admissions people use contacts all the time. We call it approach but there is a very haphazard way in which this networking happens. Imagine if their was a portal on which you could search if your colleague's mother is a teacher in the school that you want for your kid.

        This especially important in Indian context, because here we use approach for everything and using approach is a part of life. You want a job , you need someone on the inside. you want a bed in the hospital, you need some on the inside. You want college admission, once again you need someone. We use our relatives as assets and it's time we do it more efficiently

Idea 2.  Teach logic in primary school    

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Idea 3.  The training of local people who can act as health workers in villages

       This is actually long overdue. The basic problem is the acute shortage of doctors in India. There are less than 10,000 medical seats available in india. that means less than 10,000 mbbs doctors are made every year in a country of a billion. After the 5 and a half year of medical training they also have to go for post graduation and the number of post graduate seats are roughly half of the mbbs seats. post graduation takes about 3 years or so. so it takes 8 years to become a doctor in india. and less than 5000 doctors are trained every year.

Since there is such an acute shortage of doctors in India they find more than enough patients in cities themselves and dont want to go to villages. to address this problem you cant simply force doctors to go villages, that's the stalinist way of doing it. you have to train more people in basic health care , in basic medicine, who can give paracetamol and aspirin and give calcium tablets and refer more serious problems to more experienced doctors. This sort of system is in place in china and its successful there. Since its the only other coutry with a billion people there solution is better suited for us than the british model that we follow.