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Training can improve unlicensed healthcare providers: Study
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Kolkata, Oct 13 (IANS) Modest levels of
medical training can improve the quality of
health care furnished by unlicensed health
care practitioners, says a recent study
conducted in West Bengal.
The study, in the form of a novel field
experiment shows that informal care
providers are more likely to handle cases
correctly and compile basic checklists of
patient information after undergoing about
150 hours of training over a period of
months.
"They do seem to be learning, and they are using this knowledge," said Abhijit Banerjee,
the Ford International Professor of Economics at MIT and coauthor of the study, in a
media release.
The state government sponsored study, published in October in the journal Science, was
conducted with the cooperation of 304 informal health care providers in Bengal. The 150
hours of training the participants received was divided into 72 sessions over a ninemonth
period.
In rural India, selfdeclared "doctors" and health care providers without formal medical
training are sought for up to 75 per cent of primary care visits, the statement said.
The frequent use of such informal providers, despite legal prohibitions on their practices,
in part reflects the absence of trained medical professionals in rural locations.
The experiment analysed whether unlicensed health care providers could act adequately
when faced with information pertaining to three types of illnesses chest pain, breathing
problems, and diarrhea that require different types of responses.
"It evaluates your general skill as a health care provider," Banerjee said.
Banerjee added that the lowcost experiment is now being scaled up by Bengal, to see if
this approach can improve care for segments of the population that do not regularly
access formal medical providers.
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About 54 per cent of primarycare medical visits in West Bengal occur in these informal
settings.
The authors of the study are Banerjee, Jishnu Das of the World Bank, Abhijit Chowdhury
of Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research at SSKM Hospitals in
Kolkata, and Reshmaan Hussam, a postdoctorate at Yale University.
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