PRIMARY TRAUMA CARE WORKSHOP FOR AYUSH PRACTIONERS
Giving shape to the Prime Minister’s dreams and the National Health Policy 2017, Lifeline Foundation is the ONLY non-profit to have signed an MoU with the Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India’s nodal agency, Rashtriya Ayurved Vidyapeeth, New Delhi. and the National Institute of Ayurveda, a deemed university in Jaipur, to up-skill AYUSH doctors as part of the Government’s aim to mainstream AYUSH doctors.
AYUSH CARES is a funded project and is delivered free of cost to beneficiaries – AYUSH practitioners, both in private and institutional set ups.
Its 1st project on COVID-19 Care was funded by Tech Mahindra Foundation.
The ongoing larger project on PRIMARY TRAUMA CARE (PTC) is funded by HDFC Bank under its CSR mandate Parivartan. It is supported by Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India.
- The PTC project serves the following dual objectives:
Address Government of India’s National Health Policy (NHP) 2017 of Mainstreaming AYUSH Doctors with competencies to provide care on lines of modern medicine. - Providing Medical Relief and Treatment to road-accident victims and victims of other trauma in both rural and semi-urban settings.
In FY 2022-23, we trained 4,005 AYUSH doctors, and in the FY 2024-25 we trained another 4,007 AYUSH doctors in trauma algorithms. We have so far conducted these workshops in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Goa.
This project involves conducting workshops on Primary Trauma Care; it is a hands-on workstation based didactic and skill development training to address out of hospital primary trauma care by AYUSH doctors, primarily in rural and semi-urban settings. The workshops will train its participants FREE OF COST through hands-on sessions on Initial assessment and primary survey, C-spine stabilisation, wound care and suturing IV – IO Access, Airway Management and Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation.
