Tirupati: Pink Bus to be launched as part of
‘Women’s Cancer Initiative’
DECCAN CHRONICLE.PublishedDec
15, 2018, 1:31 am IST
UpdatedDec
15, 2018, 1:31 am IST
Since Mangalam PHC serves as SVIMS rural health center, it will be the starting region for this mobile cancer screening initiative.
Since Mangalam PHC serves as SVIMS rural health center, it will be the starting region for this mobile cancer screening initiative.
TIRUPATI: Sri
Venkateswara
Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) will launch a ‘pink bus’ as part of its
initiative on Women's Cancer. The event will be held near administrative block
of the institute in Tirupati on
Saturday. SVIMS Director and Vice-Chancellor Dr T.S. Ravi Kumar will flag off
the ‘pink bus’ and start mobile campaigning.
According to the SVIMS authorities,
the bus is equipped with facilities like mobile mammography, gyn
exam/ PAP smear, oral examination, breast ultrasound, educational video on
cancer prevention, patient counselling etc, in
a bundled screening approach for the three main types of cancer that affect
women.
The stress
will be on prevention and early diagnosis of these cancers, so as to reduce
cancer burden in the community and ameliorate the hardships being faced by a
number of women developing advanced cancers.
In the long run, the bus will also
serve in screening and prevention of other non-communicable diseases (NCD) such
as diabetes, high BP, smoking cessation, heart stroke and kidney diseases.
Dr Ravi Kumar said, the programme
will be carried out in cooperation and collaboration with other government
health programs through DM&HO, NGOs such as Rotary and industrial partners.
“Since Mangalam
PHC serves as SVIMS rural health center,
it will be the starting region for this mobile cancer screening initiative. It
will be expanded to Tirupati
Urban area, progressively expanding to Chittoor district and we hope to use
this pink bus concept for health systems strengthening in the region of Rayalaseema",
he added.
Meanwhile, Mr Lalit
Shah hailing from Mumbai has donated Rs 1
crore for the bus and remaining fund of Rs 2.19
crore has been recruited from Sri Balaji
Arogya
Varaprasadini
Scheme, as well as many members of SVIMS health system.
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THE HANS INDIA | Dec 16,2018 , 12:28 AM IST
Pink Bus launched to combat cancer
It focuses on three main cancers in females—breast, cervix and oral
The bus is equipped with advanced screening facilities
In a phased manner, bus will cover entire Rayalaseema and diagnose cancer in its early stages
Pink Bus launched to combat cancer
Tirupati:
To combat the three main cancers—breast, cervix and oral—affecting women, Sri Venkateswara
Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) embarked with the novel concept of Pink
Bus.
The Director cum Vice Chancellor of SVIMS Dr TS Ravikumar
has launched the bus which will have the features of mobile mammography, PAP
smear, oral examination, breast ultrasound scanning
facilities.
The initiative will help detect the cancer in its early stages there by
reducing the cancer burden in the community.
This was one of the prestigious concepts for ‘Women’s cancer initiative for Rayalaseema
to offer bundled screening and prevention of the disease in the
region.
In the long run, the bus will also serve screening and prevention of other
non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking
cessation, kidney diseases and heart stroke said the Director Dr TS Ravikumar.
Pink Bus will operate in the triple aim framework—better care for the
individual, better health of the population and at affordable sustainable
cost—to improve access for women to quality health care linking hub to
hut.
The institute has set out its goal very clear of improving the outcomes
of three common cancers in women using prevention, screening, early diagnosis,
multidisciplinary care and palliative care approaches.
As suggested by the name itself, the ‘Pink Bus’ is having a pink chassis with
advanced screening facilities inside. The bus is also having a generator
facility to make screenings without any hitch.
The state-of-the-art vehicle will go to villages and even remote areas to
screen the women with special focus on those at below poverty line with free of
cost.
According to an estimate, about 17 lakh people may be prone to cancer by
2020 and eight lakh of them may have to lose their lives. Among the new cancer
patients in the world, 23 per cent were coming from India and 25 per cent of
them were dying.
The Pink Bus initiative was aimed at reaching about 15 million population in Rayalaseema
region in phased manner. To start with, they will extend the services at Mangalam
PHC which serves as its rural health centre and will be expanded to Tirupati
Urban area and then to the district.
“We hope to use this Pink Bus concept for strengthening of health system in the
region of Rayalaseema”,
Dr Ravikumar
averred.
The doctors and other staff of SVIMS will go with the bus for the basic
intervention. “We organise camps in the villages and screen the women there to
find out the symptoms of cancer in its early stages.
This will reduce the death burden as most of the cases were now being detected
in its stage III or IV,” observed the Head of the Surgical Oncology Department
of SVIMS Dr H Narendra.
The doctors review each case at SVIMS and give treatment for those required. An
awareness video on cancers will also be screened at every camp from the Pink
Bus.
The programme has been carried out in cooperation and collaboration with other
government health programmes through DM&HO, NGOs such as Rotary Club and
industrial partners.
The main donor was Lalit Shah of Mumbai who donated Rs
1 crore and other funds were provided from Sri Balaji
Arogya
Varaprasidini
Scheme and other channels to cover the total cost of Rs
2.19 crore of the project.
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