Seeking Advice: How to Support Employees with Critical Illnesses in Maharashtra?

Hi All Seniors,

I have planned a health check-up for employees but I am not sure what might come up. If any of them is found to be suffering from any life-threatening disease, I am unsure of how to guide them. I would like to know about NGOs in Maharashtra or in India that provide help for critical illness care or any other medical cases.

I urgently need help before I proceed with the health check-ups.

Hema, Nasik, Maharashtra.

Hello friend,

Getting health check up done is a very good initiative. You should not worry about the outcome - most likely the there would not be many cases having life threatening illness. Since as of today if most of the employees are healthy and attending office work.

Generally the cases would be related to diabetes, hypertension, overweight etc and employees having habits of smoking and drinking. So most of the cases can be counselled by the doctor for better life style managment.

Is worry about HIV test? then also I feel that one should not worry about the outcome. if someone is found to be HIV positive it is good that case is identified now rather than later.

Most probably you will not need any help of an NGO. However after the tests are over if you find any specific case we can think of an NGO at that time. For the present just get the health check done. Have you decided on what tests to be done. Here is a recommended list for employees above 35 years of age:

1. Complete Blood Count, Blood Group, ESR,Urine Routine,Stool Routine & Occult blood

2. Fasting & PP Blood Sugar

3. BUN, Creatinine, Uric Acid

4. Bilirubin, SGPT, Alkaline Phosphatase

5. Cholesterol, HDL, LDL, VLDL, CH/HDL Ratio, Triglycerides

6. ECG

7. X-Ray Chest

8. Eye Check-up

9. USG-Abdomen & Pelvis - Screening (Both Males and Females)

10. 2-D Echo - Screening – (Males only)

11. TMT (Males only)

12. Gynecological Examination with Pap Smear Test (Females only)

13. Mammography (Females only)

Below 35 years of age following tests are adequate:

1. Complete Blood Count, Blood Group

2. Urine Routine

3. Blood Sugar - Random

4. Blood Urea / BUN

5. Serum Cholesterol

6. ECG + Height, Weight, BP

7. X-Ray Chest – PA view

8. Eye Check Up

9. Gynecological Examination with PAP+USG Screening (Females only)

Hope this helps.

Regards

Nishikant

Dear Mr. Nishikant,

Thank you for your reply. I actually forgot to mention that I am also covering spouses along with employees. Last year, I had to provide solutions for three cases where individuals were suffering from critical illnesses, causing a great deal of concern.

I look forward to hearing more from you.

Thanks,
Hema

Dear Mr. Nishikant,

Thank you very much for the valuable information. This will surely help me. If you come across any more information, kindly pass it on. As we cannot stop at detection only, we have to keep checking the possibility of going further.

We are forming a Corpus to be able to help in such cases, but even the Corpus is found to be insufficient in such long treatment cases.

Thanks once again!
Hema

Dear Mr. Nishikant,

Thank you very much for the valuable information. 😊 This surely will help me. If you come across any more information, kindly pass it on. As we cannot stop at detection only and we have to keep checking the possibility of going further, hence we are forming a corpus to be able to help in such cases. However, even the corpus is found to be insufficient in such long treatment cases. Previously, we used to help people informally (without a system) in the occurrences.

Thanks once again!

Hema

Dear Mr. Nishikant,

Thank you very much for the valuable information. I am very happy. This surely will help me. If you come across any more information, kindly pass it on. As we cannot stop at detection only, we have to keep checking the possibility of going further. Hence, we are forming a Corpus to be able to help in such cases, but even the Corpus is found to be insufficient in such long treatment cases. Previously, we used to help people informally (without a system) in the occurrences.

Thanks once again!

Hema