{"id":66842,"date":"2024-09-19T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/sep\/19\/india-health-hospitals-intensive-care-rural-clinics-tele-icu"},"modified":"2024-09-19T18:00:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T09:00:03","slug":"you-feel-omnipresent-bringing-city-care-to-indias-country-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66842","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You feel omnipresent\u2019: bringing city care to India\u2019s country hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With no intensive care available in remote areas, many patients died on their way to city hospitals. Now rural medics are using tele-ICU systems to save lives<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Photographs by Elke Scholiers for the Guardian<\/p>\n<p>Whenever an ambulance arrived with a critically ill patient, Dr R Mubarak\u2019s heart would sink. His small country hospital in Bagepalli, like most rural government hospitals in India, had no intensive-care unit. Families had to take the patient, who was perhaps on the brink of death, on a two-hour drive to the general hospital in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOften the patient came back in the same ambulance, dead. They never made it,\u201d says Mubarak. \u201cI knew I could be signing their death warrant by sending them but I had no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/sep\/19\/india-health-hospitals-intensive-care-rural-clinics-tele-icu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With no intensive care available in remote areas, many patients died on their way to city hospitals. Now rural medics are using tele-ICU systems to save lives\u2022 Photographs by Elke Scholiers for the GuardianWhenever an ambulance arrived with a criticall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,59,566,841,62,299,79,61,58,2650,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-hospitals","category-india","category-science","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-telecoms","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66843,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66842\/revisions\/66843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}