Ziqitza Healthcare - How Mobile Medical Units Can Improve Access to Quality Healthcare
                     Ziqitza Healthcare - How Mobile Medical Units Can 
Improve Access to Quality Healthcare?
A key goal of service delivery is to provide equitable access to and 
coverage of health care, but this goal cannot be fully realised 
without a plan in place to reach the communities that are most 
underserved and reside in remote locations. Reaching last mile 
populations is still a problem despite the remarkable coverage 
advances. The absence of services through established service 
delivery infrastructure is a problem that needs to be addressed right 
now. A crucial service technique to reach such vulnerable people is 
the use of mobile medical units (MMUs).
 One of India's leading emergency medical service providers, 
Ziqitza Healthcare ltd, explains that mobile health services are a 
response to reaching populations living in distant, challenging places 
and those communities cut-off from mainstream services due to 
geography and climatic conditions. The Ministry of Health and Family 
Welfare (MoHFW) has made a large investment in mobile medical 
units (MMUs) in order to reach these neglected communities.
The National Health Mission (which includes the National 
Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and the National Urban 
Health Mission (NUHM) as its two Sub-Missions) goal is to 
ensure that everyone has access to fair, decent, and 
affordable health care. Ziqitza Healthcare elaborates that 
the operationalization of Mobile Medical Units (MMUs) to 
deliver a variety of health care services for populations 
living in remote, inaccessible, un-served, and underserved 
areas was one major initiative under the NRHM, with the 
main goal being to bring healthcare service delivery to 
these populations' doorsteps. The MMUs services are also 
meant to give fixed services in places where there is no 
infrastructure and serve the urban poor and vulnerable 
people with the advent of NUHM.
MMU services are intended to meet the technical and 
service quality standards for a Primary Health Centre 
by offering a suggested package of services in 12 
thematic areas: Maternal Health, Neonatal and Infant 
Health, Child and Adolescent Health, Reproductive 
Health and Contraceptive Services, Management of 
Chronic Communicable Diseases, Management of 
Common Communicable Diseases & basic OPD care 
(acute simple illnesses), Management of Common 
Non-Communicable Diseases MMUs provide these 
services for free, in addition to facilitating referrals.
Ziqitza Rajasthan states that in comparison to more conventional 
healthcare delivery methods, mobile health clinics offer high-quality 
service at a lesser cost. Mobile health clinics assist patients in avoiding 
expensive ER visits during crises, saving them money. According to 
estimates, each mobile clinic saves 600 emergency room visits annually. 
A typical savings of one-fifth of the cost of care results from this. 
Additionally, mobile clinics offer affordable preventive treatment 
that lowers the lifetime cost of care for a patient. Each mobile 
health clinic saves, on average, 65 quality-adjusted life years 
annually (a standard metric used by healthcare experts).
 
Mobile health clinics provide vulnerable populations with 
healthcare access at a fraction of the expense of operating a 
conventional hospital or care facility.
 
ZHL Rajasthan further elaborates that healthcare professionals 
can customise their services to particular populations because of 
the nature of mobile health clinics. Mobile health clinics provide 
adaptable, responsive care to populations that have just been 
displaced as well as remote and vulnerable groups. Mobile clinics' 
flexibility enables doctors to adapt their care to the changing 
needs of a population's health.
The first line of defence against sickness for 
underprivileged groups can be provided through 
mobile health clinics. Ziqitza Limited Rajasthan cites 
a long-term study of mobile clinics, which was 
published in the International Journal for Equity in 
Health, it was discovered in the study that 45 percent 
of them provide preventative screenings, 42 percent 
provide basic care, and 30 percent provide dental 
treatments. These vital services can fill the gap 
between the needs of the community's health and 
the mechanisms of traditional healthcare delivery.
Mobile Medical Units (MMU) are able to easily and affordably 
deliver preventative and curative healthcare in remote and 
inhospitable areas, including the nearby rural areas where 
there are no healthcare facilities. Ziqitza Health care limited 
has expertise managing more than 150 MMUs in Jammu and 
Kashmir, Kerala, and Madhya Pradesh, three states with 
extremely diverse populations. Our MMUs are staffed with 
medical professionals who are equipped to offer free medical 
examinations and trained to identify the signs of common 
illnesses, perform a basic diagnosis, prescribe medication, and 
send patients to specialised clinics in the event of subsequent 
medical issues. Raising awareness, ensuring preventive 
immunisation, and encouraging regular medical check-ups 
among the rural population became possible with the 
availability of these vans.