Dr Kayla Laserson Deputy Director, Infectious Diseases, Shyamashree Das Program Officer, Sameer Kumta, Sr. Programme Officer @BMGF visited IAD‘s filariasis treatment centre at Varanasi. Dr SR Narahari held an online discussion with the team and updated the progress of the project Scaling Life
Real-time consultation by Dr Narahari on Filarial lymphoedema. This is the first step of our expansion programme in Begusarai, Bihar. Beneficial to many Sufferers, because it is free.
Project Scaling Life: Scaling Integrative Medicine using Ayurveda, Allopathy and Yoga for Lymphatic Filariasis Morbidity Management and Disability Prevention (LFMMDP). Facilitated by Govt of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Executed by the Institute of Applied Dermatology Kasaragod, Kerala in association with Govt ayurveda colleges of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
IAD dispatched the first batch of Integrative Medicines to its treatment centres in Begusari and Varanasi.Dr, Vani Prasad, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon specializing in lymphoedema surgery, demonstrating visualization of superficial lymph flow in real-time using indocyanine green (ICG) technology at IAD
The first batch of trainees under the ‘Scaling Life’- LFMMDP project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, undergoing training in IAD. The team is going to be deployed in Rajakiya Ayodhya Shiv Kumari Ayurvedic College Begusarai, Bihar.
Volunteers Dr Anisha Bindagi and Dr Kousthubha S R conducting Indocyanine Green Lymphogrpahy, a technology for visualizing real time lymph flow on a filariasis patient.The training for the newly recruited trainees team to be deployed in Rajakiya Ayodhya Shiv Kumari Ayurvedic College Begusarai, Bihar, for our ‘Scaling Life’ LFMMDP project started on the 29th of December at IAD. Dr. Bhupendra Tripathi, Country Lead for Elimination Programs (Neglected Tropical Diseases), BMGF addressed the gathering and discussed Lymphatic Filariasis and Mass Drug Administration. Prof.Srinivas Tripathi, Principal, Rajakiya Ayodhya Shiv Kumari Ayurvedic College offered his full support for the program in his felicitation speech.