Vision: Health for all.
Mission: Make healthcare accessible to the disadvantaged.
Core values: Empathy, integrity and equity.

Why DoctorNet?

• Socio-economically backward patients have inadequate health care options

  • • World Health Organization (WHO) recommends 1 doctor per population of 1,000.  In India, the ratio is 1 is to 1,700.

    • Ratio in rural India is four times lower than urban India

• They are constrained by the lack of knowledge, money and communication skills to get reliable medical advice and treatment

• For curative health, there is a big distance between patients in remote regions and treatment providers - both literally and metaphorically.

What?

• Non-profit that makes healthcare accessible to socio-economically backward people.

• Bridges the information and empathy gap in healthcare

• Bridge between the (a) empathetic health professionals and (b) rural patients (referred by well-intentioned organizations)

• Informal network of 500+ doctors who help the patients get reliable medical advice and treatment. 

How?

• DoctorNet associates with individuals/organizations/networks/rural primary care centers who do meaningful interventions for the disadvantaged people in rural/tribal areas.

• They come across patients in need of curative health advice/treatment and refer them.

• DoctorNet volunteers interact with the appropriate doctors and guide them to get advice and hospitalized treatment in government hospitals (or) in private hospitals using the Government insurance scheme / subsidized treatment.

Where are the patients from?

• Rural/tribal regions across 25 districts in Tamil nadu.

• Tribal regions in Tamil nadu and in Idukki district, Kerala

Is curative healthcare guidance the main focus?

Various dimensions of our work listed below.

What's the impact?

Curative health guidance
1900+ patients have been guided till Sep 2023 across Tamil nadu and few places in Kerala.  Many were provided guidance for hospitalized treatment for serious illness. Of them, 80 percent are from rural areas. 8% are from tribal areas and 12% from urban region.
Our strength is in providing the required emotional strength throughout the treatment phase.

Collaboration with the government systems

Providing emotional support to high risk pregnant women - referred by 89 PHCs in Coimbatore district.

Patient support groups

Three patient support groups (renal, cancer, disabled) for mutual emotional support and livelihood guidance. Led by people who have recovered from their respective illness.

Community health

Intervention in a marginalized community of few hundred disadvantaged households in Coimbatore - to enable them to understand, prioritize and address community health needs

Pandemic

Second wave: Guided 150+ COVID patients by tele-consulting and followup in 400+ villages across Tamil nadu through AID India; Helped with early identification of COVID and provided guidance/emotional support during home isolation.

First wave: Provided free tele-counseling helpline service for the people to cope with pandemic related anxiety/stress/fear. 24 professional psychologists counseled 400 distress callers from small towns and villages across Tamil nadu.

Updated on Sep 2023

Would you like to collaborate with us?

Please email doctornet.india@gmail.com  / or call 94426 39490