Med Achievers July 2014 | Page 9

BETTERMENT  OF  HEALTH  CARE  DELIVERY  IN  ARMED  FORCES   AND  ECHS   -­‐An  article  by  Dr.  D.  P.  Joshi,  DGAFMS     Armed provide Forces Medical Services Primary, comprehensive state of Op- readiness in strategic locations. More than 1000 health care Secondary and Tertiary care health services through a well established delivery establishments such as MI network Rooms/Sick of establishments starting Bays/Station Medical from Peripheral MI rooms/ Station Centres in various military stations Medicare Centres/ Sick bays to apex manned by the AFMS provide round Tertiary care facilities. It is instrumental the clock medical care to our clientele, in providing quality health care to including ECHS beneficiaries. AFMS service personnel, their families and also has more than 360 dental chairs veterans and their families. AFMS has to provide dental care to our clientele the largest chain of more than 200 with ADC (R&R) Delhi as the apex Hospitals for healthcare across the dental care centre. country with 9 major centres akin to AFMS have always been the effective the Command First responders for providing medical Hospitals along with Base Hosp Delhi aid in many disasters in our country Cantt and Army Hospital (Research and abroad. Our response in the &Referral). These are all tertiary care recent Uttarakhand flash floods and hospitals. AFMS is planning to take the cyclone Phailin had been timely and next step by identifying more hospitals extremely as ‘Mini Ratnas’ for developing their resulted in saving of lives but also infrastructure. These hospitals will be helped in post disaster rehabilitation of developed into self contained pockets the afflicted individuals.. of The AFMS has metamorphosed itself ‘Navratnas’ excellence medical as which referrals 7 can contain within its efficient that not only with the changing times and has kept zone/catchment area. pace with the advances in medical Military hospitals and Field Hospitals sciences and technology. also play a pivotal role in combat focus is on continuous development in medical care and are in a constant three core areas of Human Resources, Our main