Law, Human Rights and Public Health

Law, Human Rights and Public Health

An interaction with Vinay Sreenivasa at the Alternative Law Forum.

Time: 2pm
Date: 18th June 2013
Venue: ALF Office, 122/4, Infantry Road, Opposite Infantry Wedding Hall, Bangalore, India 560001

ALF was started in March, 2000, by a collective of lawyers with the belief that there was a need for an alternative practice of law. We recognize that a practice of law is inherently political. We are committed to a practice of law which will respond to issues of social and economic injustice. Over the past few years ALF has grown from being a legal service provider to becoming a space that integrates alternative lawyering with critical research, alternative dispute resolution, pedagogic interventions and more generally maintaining sustained legal interventions in various social issues. We are also commited to an inter disciplinary interrogation of the law using creative forms. ALF perceives itself simultaneously as a space that provides qualitative legal services to marginalized groups, as an autonomous research institution with a strong interdisciplinary approach working with practitioners from other fields, as a public legal resource using conventional and unconventional forms of creating access to information, as a centre for generating quality resources that will make interventions in legal education and training, and as finally a platform to enable collaborative and creative models of knowledge production.

A discussion on Emergency and Critical Care

A discussion on Emergency

and Critical Care

Friday, June 14^th 

2:00pm-4:00pm

LOCATION:MSRMH Board Room, M S Ramaiah Medical College

Join us as we learn about the three contrasting emergency and critical care systems operating in  Switzerland, the United States and here in India. A brief presentation will be given about each country, outlining the manner in which emergency and critical care are provided to its citizens and the intricacies of these services. Following the presentations, there will be an open exchange of ideas involving the audience.

This program is done in collaboration with Doctors For Seva, Department of Medical Education and Department of Emergency and critical care; M S Ramaiah Medical College and Madhyama Foundation.

	Topic	Speaker	Time
02.00PM	Introduction to the Program and speakers Introduction into Emergency care in India	Dr Dayaprasad G Kulkarni Dr Kumar, President Medical Education	15min
	Emergency Department Care process	Group 1, Switzerland (Milena, Annabel, Srilak, Micheal)	15min
	Strategies to save time in the ER.	Group - 2, Switzerland (Karin, Adrien, Yann, Jonathan)	15min
	Emergency Department (ED) care process	Dr Aruna C Ramesh Chief of AES, MSRMH	15min
03.00 PM	Brief overview of the US system.	Group - 3, USA (Ila, Harika, Sai)	15 min
	Inter hospital transfers-Our experience	Dr Rathna COO MSR CARE	15min
	Economics of emergency care, public health implications	Dr Naresh Shetty. President, MSRMH	15min
	Open House Discussion over Tea Break & Conclusion	Dr Naresh Shetty. President, MSRMH	15min

Talk Stories -3

Q & A with Dr. Sanjay Sharma

Facilitated by Dr. Dayaprasad G Kulkarni

Visiting Faculty, Department of Post Graduate Studies, General Surgery
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences


A opportunity to discuss corporate healthcare, advent of tele medicine, chronic disease management. Its interactions with public health and opportunities to find innovative solutions

Venue: 25/1, Skip House, Museum Road, Bangalore – 560 025
Date: 12th July 2013
Time: 4 pm 

Brief Bio:

Track record of steering growth initiatives for businesses ranging in scope within start-up, turnaround and large hospitals in diverse geographies and market segments. 

Adroit at aiming growth from new partnerships by identifying & assessing opportunities, mergers and acquisitions. Competent in spearheading large-scale projects, which includes planning, design & liaison with government/external agencies. 

Adept at Business & Services Modelling, Creating SOP’s, Capacity Building, Monitoring, Behaviour Change, Process Improvement. 

Possess rich experience in the areas like Public Health / Population Health, Tele-medicine, Corporate Wellness, Health Care IT, Hospital Administration, Neighborhood Clinics. 

An effective communicator with strong people management, leadership and entrepreneurial skills

Specialties:Core Areas

Healthcare Strategy Consulting
Innovative Health Care Delivery Models
Healthcare Operations Managements / Process Management
Public Health
Disease Management
Corporate Wellness
Health Care IT / Telemedicine
Project Management
M & A
Capacity Building

Clinical Specialization in Ano-Rectal Diseases & Wound Management

Talk Stories - 2

Walk with Geographer and Educationalist Dr. Chandrashekar Balachandran

Understanding India in the context of its cultures, traditions and Geography

Venue: Starts from Koshys Cafe
St. Marks Road
Date: 11th June 2013
Time: 10 am

Interaction with a social worker and philosopher, Bhaskar Guda

This morning, we were introduced to Bhaskar Guda, a social worker and philosopher. He is initially an architect, but doesn't really practice anymore. Instead, he is very active in the voluntary field and has been working with “Youth for SEVA” for the last past three years. Moreover, he likes to read and think in a philosophic way about what is going on around him, and how people act and think.

It was very interesting for us to be able to interact with him and talk about what we have experienced and observed since our arrival in Bangalore three weeks ago. Indeed, India and Switzerland function very differently in many ways and we tried to understand why these two countries are so different, based on a historic point of view. This helped us to understand the context in which we are working here and to reply to some of our questions.

MEG Swiss Team

Talk Stories

Interaction with Social Worker, Thinker and Philosopher - Bhaskar Guda

Facilitated by Dr. Dayaprasad G Kulkarni

Challenges and Opportunities for Non - Profit organisations, Development Professionals and Volunteers in creating Positive Change.

Venue: MEG School Auditorium
PSK Naidu Road
Coxtown, Bangalore - 560005
Date: 10th June 2013
Time: 10 am to 12 noon

Sports for SEVA day

On the 1st and 2nd of June happened Sport for SEVA, which was a fund raising sport event for the School Kit Drive, organised by Youth of SEVA. The benefits, about 25'000 rupees, will be used to provide school kits to 30'000 under privileged children.

There were lots of tournaments organised: cricket, basketball, volley ball, throw ball and chess. The participants were corporate employees, RWAs and apartment owners.

With the help of Doctors for SEVA we had a stall. There, people could get their blood pressure checked and their weight and height measured. We also provided first aid in case of injury.

During that day, we made a survey about the level of physical activity of the participants. 9 women and 25 men took part in the survey. the The results are the following:

On this table, we see that the majority of the people 

are doing a high or medium intensity sport. About

high intensity, there are more women than men, but it's the contrary for medium intensity activities.

This tabel shows that half of the participants had a  normal BMI, but most part of the women were overweight.

Here, the results are very good, because the majority of the particpants had a normal blood

pressure, even if a quarter of them are a bit high.

On this one, we see that there is no difference between vegetarian and non-vegetarian people, be it for BMI or blood pressure.