Defense services.pptx...........................

Defense services.pptx...........................

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  Defense services Prof. KrupaMathew.M
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  krupa mathew DEFENSE SERVICES INTRODUCTION Armedforce medical services(AFMS) is an inter services organization headed by the director general armed forces medical services who function directly under the ministry of defense. It is responsible for providing health care services to armed forces personnel their families and other beneficiaries as mandated.
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  krupa mathew MEANING Armed ForcesMedical Services is the first tri- service (Army, Navy and Air Force) organization and one of the largest organized medical services in the country. It has state of the art tertiary care hospitals and specialty centres of excellence.
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  krupa mathew FUNCTION  Itprovides medical support to the Armed Forces during war as well as comprehensive health care to all service personnel, ex- servicemen and their dependents during peace.  Army Medical Corps provides medical aid during natural calamities both at national and international levels.
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  krupa mathew ORGANOGRAM DGAFMS (directorgeneral of armed force medical services) ⇓ DG (ORG & PERS)AFMS (organizational and personnel matters) ⇓ Addl DGAFMS (HR) ⇓ Dy DGAFMS (HR) ⇓ Director AFMS (P-II) ⇓ Dy Director AFMS
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  krupa mathew ROLES ANDRESPONSIBILITIES OF AFMS • To provide comprehensive health care including combat and operational medical support to the serving armed forces personal, their families and dependents. • The medical services of the army, navy and air force are headed by the respective DGsMS who exercise operational control over the medical infrastructure under them
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  krupa mathew • Dentalcare in armed forces is provided at different dental centers of army ,navy and air force respectively • Specialty facilities are provided in service hospitals taking into account the number of beds in the particular hospitals. • The AFMS has a well established referral system where patients needing specialist and super specialist care are referred or transferred to hospitals with the requisite facilities when needed.
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  krupa mathew • Mobilemedical treatment facilities are existing in the Indian army. • Air ambulance – It is pre equipped air craft with intensive care material,monitors,ventilators etc. • Artificial limb centre- established with the primary objective of managing the prosthetic and orthotic needs of disabled personnel of the Indian armed forces.
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  krupa mathew • AFMSis mandated to follow evidence based medicine as practiced under “allopathic system of medicine". the AFMS does not practice other alternate system of medicine like ayurveda and homeopathy • The AFMS has been playing a major role in providing medical service in natural disasters. Hospital of armed forces are also well prepared to provide specialist medical and surgical teams during disasters. It has collaboration with international research organization
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  krupa mathew • Medicalpreparedness to contain various types of contagious diseases in Armed Forces is as under, a) Armed Forces have formulated policies with regard to contagious diseases in consonance with the National Health Programmes. b) Robust mechanism of surveillance and monitoring of the diseases are in place. c) Starting from unit level, health education is undertaken for troops and preventive measures are instituted for communicable diseases.
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  krupa mathew d) In-builtreporting mechanism and updation of health statistics by units, station health organizations, medical Directorates at various echelons and DGAFMS ensures monitoring of the cases at all times. e) Data is held at nodal centers (hospitals, Formation HQ and Service HQrs) for interpreting, analysis and timely action. Station Health Organizations are upgraded and equipped for monitoring the cases.
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  krupa mathew f) Notificationof outbreaks is undertaken as per the national and international health regulations g) Armed Forces Central Epidemiological Surveillance Centre (AFCESC) at AFMC is the specialized nodal centre which undertakes surveillance. h) Constant liaison/interaction with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare/WHO for any changing new threats.
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  krupa mathew • Digitization Thecommittee were informed that digitization is being carried out in AFMS at 5 levels  Human resource management  Patients and clinical processes data  Medical store procurement  Military stores  Recruitment and training
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  krupa mathew • Ministerof defense mandated to conduct research to meet the requirement of defense sector. AFMS conducts medical research in all medical fields with an emphasis on military medicine and combat medicine support. • Tele-medicine facilities are available