Dr. V Chandramowli Memorial Lecture delivered By Dr G Nageswara Rao

Hyderabad: For the Dr V Chandramowli Memorial Lecture endowed by Essential Medical Services Delivered by Dr. Gullapalli Nageswara Rao, Founder and Chairman, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, gave a talk on ‘Universal Health Care: A Model’.

In his speech, Dr. Rao touched upon the elements of universal healthcare by giving examples from LV Prasad Eye Institutes. He defined universal health care as “ensuring equitable access for all Indian Citizens to affordable, accountable, appropriate health services of assured quality (Promotive, curative and rehabilitative).”

Dr Rao spoke about comprehensive care and highlighted how we are performing in this area. As per him, our performance is below par in respective of Promotion, and prevention, Patchy in Curative and very, very poor in respect of Rehabilitation.

By many measures, the world has never been in better health. Yet, the gap between this progress and medicine’s still greater potential has perhaps never been wider. At least half the world is without access to what the World Health Organization deems essential.

56% of our country can’t spend money on healthcare. Blindness is a major healthcare problem.

Dr Nageswara Rao, explained, how L V Prasad Eye Institute, extending the services in the remotest areas to serve the people, by establishing Vision Centres, using latest technology like drones and using Vision Guardian’s in eye health promotion, screening programmes, Referrals, Post-operative surveillance and identifying vulnerable age groups.

Dr Nirmalya Bagchi, Director General (I/c), ASCI, welcomed and introduced the speaker Dr G Nageswara Rao, Shri K Padmanabhaiah, IAS (Retd), Chairman-CoG, ASCI, gave opening remarks and presented the memento to the guest speaker. Dr P Nagabhushanam, President of Essential Medical Services, proposed a vote of thanks.