Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 31: The Department of Environment, Ecology and Remote Sensing has bagged National e-Governance Award for 2012-13 in the category “Innovative use of Technology in e-Governance” for its project “Measuring Physical Accessibility to Healthcare Network and Population Coverage Modeling in J&K using Geo-informatics.”
Project is related to the ability of a population to obtain specified set of health care services. The objective was to provide an insight into the existing Healthcare network and its catchment areas based on travel time and population coverage capacity of the various types of health institutions in State besides rationally identifying locations for setting up new healthcare facilities in future so that patients could reach these within a predetermined travel time irrespective of their location.
The idea was conceived when Chief Minister visited the Geo-informatics Laboratory of the Department and identified 4-5 projects for use of Remote Sensing Technology and studying the impact on the development processes and this was one such project. This is for the first time that the technology has been put to use for decision making in the context of health care accessibility among masses using a software package by the name ACCESSMOD-3 developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and suitably modifying it in the context of the State. The Principal Investigator for the project was Humayun Rashid, Jr. Scientist. The project was funded by the Health and Medical Education Department, Government of J&K.
The Director Environment Ecology and Remote Sensing Suresh Chugh, informed that the award will be given by Governor of Rajasthan in presence of Chief Minister of Rajasthan and Union Minister for Administrative Reforms and Trainings in a conference to be held on February, 11 and 12, 2013 at Jaipur, Rajasthan.
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