Kerala authorities to launch app for diagnosing, controlling way of life illnesses
2 min readBy PTI
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala authorities is able to launch an Android app — ‘Shaili App’ — geared toward diagnosing and controlling way of life illnesses amongst folks within the southern State, Kerala Health Minister Veena George mentioned on Thursday.
Claiming that way of life illnesses have been on the rise, George mentioned the app would assist to offer an correct image of such illnesses each regionally and on the State-level, and allow the federal government to manage such illnesses and formulate applicable well being plans.
The app has been arrange as a part of the population-based screening challenge launched by the Health Department below the Nava Kerala Karma plan, the Minister mentioned in a launch.
As a part of the health-screening challenge, ASHA employees have been tasked with gathering info from individuals over the age of 30 of their respective areas about any way of life illnesses or threat components they could have, the discharge mentioned.
The app, arrange below the e-Health initiative, would assist to gather and codify the data rapidly, it mentioned.
The app would primarily acquire details about illnesses like diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart illness, lung illnesses in addition to different lifestyle-related illnesses and cancers.
Besides that, it could acquire details about the existence of a person that result in these illnesses, the discharge mentioned.
It additional mentioned that primarily based on the data collected, the well being standing of the people could be scored and people with a rating of above 4 could be requested to go to the closest well being centre for a check-up for way of life illnesses.
The ASHA employees could be incentivised to go to the households of their respective areas and knowledge collected by them could be instantly made obtainable to well being employees.
The launch mentioned that whereas there are way of life illness diagnostic clinics in any respect well being centres, together with household welfare sub-centres, within the State, there was no clear statistical information of way of life illnesses primarily based on demographics of every space.
The new app has been arrange as an answer to that, it mentioned.
