Photo: The Indian Express
Wading across a river and then trekking 8 km (about 5 miles) through a dense forest to provide care does not figure in any medical curriculum, but three doctors from Kerala in India took it all in their stride when they went to test and treat the impoverished tribal people near Palghat for Covid-19. The three doctors from the newly established Puttur Domiciliary Care Centre were responding to an SOS from a village with a population of around 100 tribal people. Of the 30 people tested, 7 turned out to be positive and had to be shifted to the Care Centre ,which caters to 67 villages and has 120 beds. Such prompt primary care, including testing, treating and vaccinating, is saving thousands of lives in this state and other states with equally remote villages, where medical care is difficult, if not impossible to access, can be a model to follow elsewhere.
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