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NORTH AMERICAN Newsline FEBRUARY 25, 2022 | The Indian Eye 23

Record 315 Health Clinics established in

India under leadership of Dr Raj Shah,

Rajat Gupta and Dr Raj Bhayani

OUR BUREAU venture, and serve the community, including free pain and suffering all around, there are still indi-
Home Testing and health monitoring to detect viduals and organizations that are selflessly help-
New York, NY
early stages of critical illness and provide at a cost ing people in need in whatever way they can.
r. Raj Bhayani joined the Health Council affordable fee for remote consultation with med- During the COVID-19 pandemic, WHEELS
of the WHEELS Global Foundation in ical specialists, providing a prescription for treat- Global Foundation has been working with NGOs
DApril 2021 and has been an active mem- ment and required drugs that villagers can acquire in the US and India to provide oxygen concen-
ber of the fund-raising committee and Chair of at zero cost supplied by the Govt. The health mon- trators and isolation rooms to underserved ar-
Liaison Committee connecting with membership itoring continues after treatments or surgical pro- eas, including villages as well as Tier II and Tier
of the several Indian Physicians Association as cedures at district hospitals. III cities. Continuing with this effort, WHEELS
well as AAPI. The Chair of Health Council Dr Global Foundation, in collaboration with Shiv
Raj Shah has completely transformed the India this implementation of 315 telemedicine Yog Foundation and the Rotary Club of Aurang-
Health initiative along with other eminent team abad, procured 10 Oxygen Concentrators for
members including Rajat Gupta. units by the health council has impacted Aurangabad….” The local media also reported
The WHEELS Health Council was in full about 1.8 million people with each opera- this effort and its contribution to the local com-
gear throughout this year of the pandemic. With munity.
the active solicitation of our many volunteers and tion serving a rural area with a population WGF Health council also made strides for es-
the very able guidance of the health council, we of approx. 5,000. the health council also tablishing a footprint for its service in the United
implemented 315 Telemedicine Operations in States by implementing the first Telemedicine ini-
partnership with EVOLKO – a telemedicine plat- helped to work with the Rotary clubs in tiative at New York University in Manhattan and
form vendor applying AI/ML for diagnostics and aurangabad with oxygen concentrators to launching a research program with the Center of
healthcare. Bihar has 155 and Uttar Pradesh has Medical Innovation at the University of Utah.
88 telehealth clinics. help meet their local requirements. The council also expanded the program to
The model labeled Healthcare Easy Access include 12+ sub-committees to evaluate activities
for Rural communities through Telemedicine In acknowledging the assistance provided by in other areas such as Oncology, Mental Health,
(HEART) offers local individual operators to WGF, the Rotary Club newsletter read “…. In Maternal, and Child Care, etc. where technology
earn a fair wage, experience an entrepreneurial these unprecedented times, when there is much can help to scale philanthropy.

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