Counting days.
Time will lose herself and the space between us will become a blackhole.
Moments I
night screamed at our ventilator
bulbs had blown their heads off
in the dilute light of your eyes,
slow, i circled circles of love
distant like a tern
up, stars whimpered softly
©Mohana Das
#071
isolation clasps my clavicles,
bobbing in the gap
i choke on scattered throbs,
buying pauses from a bleeding sea
before i collapse
along veins, i feel the wreck
pulsing up, down, distant like
corked atmosphere
i hold back these
lunar tugs and tides-
odd voices,
they rush in to fill two deflated lungs
©Mohana Das
Happy Heart(‘s) beat:
A happy heart beats, well, happily! And this happiness stems from being proud possessors of a healthy body as well as a healthy mind. Today, this happiness is being cared for and nourished by the advancement in the field of medical and interdisciplinary sciences. The Age of Aquarius has pledged wellness & happily-ever-afters with what is being called modern healthcare.
Because this era of Preventive Medicine is all about-
The delivery of modern health care depends on groups of trained professionals and paraprofessionals coming together as interdisciplinary teams. This includes professionals in medicine, nursing, dentistry and allied health, plus many others such as public health practitioners, community health workers and assisted personnel, who systematically provide personal and population-based preventive, curative and rehabilitative care services. Modern Healthcare, in its many avatars, is touching lives in every way. From discovering cures of “incurable” diseases to retarding the process of aging, modern healthcare has indeed spelled magic. And this is not just for the urban rich. Projects like the Piramal eSwasthya is a boon for the poor living in remote corners.
Who knows someday we muggles might come up with counters for the Unforgivable Curses!!!
Here we talk about how modern healthcare has helped those in remote rural areas:
Telemedicine in India:
E-swasthya is a Social Initiative of Primal Healthcare Limited, a first-of-its-kind telemedicine-based model for providing primary care in Rajasthan, India that aims to address the absence of doctors. Piramal Healthcare Ltd. launched eSwasthya in 2008. Since 2008, Piramal e-Swasthya has treated 40,000 patients in 40 villages. This is the framework:
Mobile Health Care Services:
Mobile Health Services (MHS) tackles barriers rural people face accessing primary healthcare. It deploys mobile health units – vans equipped with technology, medical devices, medicine and health workers – to villages that the public health system does not serve. MHS primarily focuses on chronic diseases, maternal and child health and minor ailments. HMRI has run two fleets of mobile health units in partnership with state governments:
Sanjeevani in Assam (February 2011 – present)
104 Mobile in Andhra Pradesh (August 2008 – December 2010)
Together these programs have provided services to 12 million people across 25,000 service points.
Asara©:
In 2010, HMRI launched Asara© in partnership with MacArthur Foundation. Asara©works to decrease maternal mortality among tribal people in Araku Valley, Andhra Pradesh. Through 31 December 2011, Asara© has enabled nearly a 47% decrease in maternal mortality and a 59% decrease in neonatal mortality.
Mobile Phone Apps:
Mobile technology is on its way to innovate healthcare delivery and the quality of the patient’s experience. In fact, there are currently more than 13,000 healthcare-related apps in the iTunes store and many more on application platforms such as Amazon and Google Play. The iBGStar iPhone glucose meter is one example of a mobile health device and application designed to help patients monitor a chronic illness or disease. Plus, it’s the first device of its kind to be cleared by the Food and Drug Administration. Modern advancements in mobile technology are helping with chronic disease management by reminding patients to take their medication at the proper time and generally extending service to various neglected areas, thereby improving overall health outcomes. Moreover, these apps can be used by health workers. One of the winners of the 2011 Imagine Cup Competitions by Microsoft came up with LifeLens, an app that can perform on-board diagnosis and detect malaria and thus save millions of dollars while providing easy and accessible diagnosis even in the remotest corners of Sub-Saharan Africa.
The video below shows how-
Aragonda Apollo Rural Hospital:
Mr Bill Clinton, the then President of the US said, “I wish we had such facilities in remote parts of the U.S.A.” Facility at Aragonda Apollo Hospital is first of its kind in India and is indeed a milestone in Rural Healthcare. Information Technology is used for tele-consultation from the experts at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai & Hyderabad through Video Conference to help the patients to get the best of Health Care facilities free of cost. Thanks to Dr. Reddy and his vision, modern healthcare has been touching lives in every strata of the society in India.
Published for How Does Modern Healthcare Touch Lives Contest on Indiblogger.
In association with Apollo Hospitals. For the cutting-edge technologies offered by Apollo Hospitals in India, go to: http://www.apollohospitals.com/cutting-edge.php
Letters of Love V
6/5/13, 10:47pm
Dear love,
There is so much I want to write tonight. But sadly I don’t have words. Nothing that will let me breathe. Despite this need to scream at your searing indifference. Like you I can hardly express pain in words. With my face buried in the darkness, i am pleading me to believe that every firefly out there is dead. I want to escape but somehow every train of thought beguilingly leads me to you.
You’re okay. I am not.
And that sums up yet another love story.
xoxo
#070
my eyes sting.
i wrote you letters i could never post.
but i told you i’m sorry, like
i told Maa i’m sorry but she never returned
- too angry, never forgave
and i kept hoping.
neither of you ever missed me.
i cried alone.
i slashed my wrists, and
i screamed aloud right next to you-
but you had headphones on high
neither of you ever heard me
and i kept hoping.
i pressed my cheek against the glass,
took in sedatives, all night i lay
making love to loneliness
inside-out, i cried.
desperate to die.
there is still so much to ask
but neither of you’ll ever reply
i know, yet i keep hoping.
©Mohana Das
#069
the window folds itself
curling like an bird
on the chest of a fading sky
“remember the hours you’d paint
sonnets upon my breast,” i had asked
shimmering closer to
your eyes, “while a thousand tremors
shook forests of dusk?”
we were hungry, caterpillar-ish,
but you would rather i left
my hair uncombed, my earlobes empty
for you to sing your heart in-
but then Fevrier-
the way she snapped down the veil,
“…so scared,” i heard my consonants fall,
and the moon shouting, distraught,
your tongue left codes all over-
“don’t leave-”
“there has to be sleep,” you crooned,
“sweetheart-”
when i answered to light
there were scars- all septic-
and they had tagged me (a)live.
©Mohana Das
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