INTRODUCING BOMADOC HOME PATIENT CARE
What is Bomadoc?
Bomadoc is a new healthcare delivery service by Dawaline Medicare. It is designed to provide medical attention to patients in their familiar home environment. Bomadoc is intended to provide an opportunity for home-based patient and family-specific needed mental and emotional support. Bomadoc uses a system where patients can be followed up on a daily basis (if need be) physically and digitally by taking advantage of modern information communication technology.
For whom is this service designed?
Bomadoc home patient care services is designed for any patient (and their family) who finds making a return trip to hospitals and doctor’s office expensive and burdensome. The following category of patients will benefit from Bomadoc services:
- Patients with a chronic illness
- Terminally ill patients who are on palliative care
- Physically or mentally disabled persons who need medical care
- Old age persons in need medical attention from time to time.
- Infants and young children who get sick at home while the mother is away.
Benefits Of Bomadoc Home Patient Care Services
While offering the advantages cited above to the patient, the family and the community, Bomadoc has the following benefits and advantages over conventional healthcare model:
- Reduces the cost of transport to the hospital for the patient and accompanying attendant(s).
- Bomadoc significantly reduces inconvenience, pain, and discomfort attendant to the trip to the doctor by the patient and attendants.
- It reduces the inconveniences and opportunity cost occasioned to the accompanying care giver.
- The service reduces the financial costs of patient care, more so for patients who require care for long term conditions or terminal care.
- Bomadoc services reduces to near zero, the financial burden and inconveniences occasioned to relatives, friends and neighbours when they visit the patient in distant hospital sites.
- The service eliminates the discomfort suffered by the patient because of unfamiliar surroundings, people and food encountered in hospital settings.
- By having your baby or young child attended to at home, the mother/father can continue working without having the inconveniences of having to ask for a duty-off.
How does it work
Bomadoc is not designed to completely do away with hospital visits, however, it will remove that component of care which hospitals provide in the hospital but can also be provided at home by qualified and certified healthcare professionals. Bomadoc is designed to be a significant contribution to the government’s Universal Healthcare Care program, especially on financial and physical access to healthcare for patients on long-term healthcare.
Training of Care Givers
Often, when the need of a care giver arises in a family, available persons with no training or experience in care-giving are given the tasks and requested to perform it just like any other housekeeping job. Even where a trained care giver is available and is given the job, many families confuse the professional care giver with a house maid. As a result, the care giver may feel slighted and ends up being dissatisfied and demoralized with the job, meaning they give less to the one who needs services unsatisfactorily.
In instances where the patient has medical issues and on medications, untrained care givers may not be of much assistance to the patient in this respect. In other instances, due to lack of proper knowledge, the care giver may end up providing the wrong medication to the patient and making the patient’s condition even more complicated and adding onto the existing pain, discomfort and suffering and cost of care.
In order to make home healthcare services available for our patients we will train and make trained home healthcare providers available to homebased patients and families.
Medication related problems
To ensure that patients don’t suffer from medication related health problems, the training will cover a module on medications: how they work, side effects, dosing and storage. They will be trained to detect adverse medication reactions and to liaise closely with the family pharmacist or clinician attached to the family.
How can you access Bomadoc services?
Visit us to discuss your specific needs at Dawaline Medicare, Ground floor, Doctors Plaza, Mathigu road, Ruiru. You can also call 0702 970999 and ask for Bomadoc home patient care services.