Digital Didi Changing Mindsets, Practices and Narratives
DEF’s centre in Chinna Kondur, Telangana is located at the main chowk of the village making it accessible to all. Jagdish and Vamsi, the project officers for DEF in the region took me around the village. An old woman saw us walking on the street and she shouted “Vamsi!!”, we turned and walked to her house. She said to him “when is the doctor coming? I am supposed to have a consultation this week.” DEF has ten centres in the region and one of the centre’s is run by a medical professional or ‘HealthPreneur’ as we call them at DEF. He visits all the ten villages of DEF and provides medical consultation to the patients in the village at a minimal price. Vamsi explained “this woman has a long-drawn medical problem for which she needs regular medication and consultation. Unfortunately earlier she didn’t have access to this consultation because the nearest hospital is far away and it is too expensive for her to travel there every other week. When we organised a health camp and told the villagers about our health program she was very excited. This is why our HealthPreneur makes a visit to Chinna Kondur every fortnight because there are patients like her waiting for him. He not only serves this village but all the ten villages in the district where DEF is present.”
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