Medical professionals of MIMS facilities in Bhopal and Jodhpur in collaboration with other health experts have proposed a new strategy to increase cancer treatment services and develop cities in small urban centers.
In a paper published in an open access journal, they are mainly given cancer care in Tier 1 cities, but treatment facilities are expanding in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, where care remains unorganized, facing issues such as infrastructure deficiency, rising costs and socio-economic diversity. Their proposed L model meets to optimize cancer care distribution in Tier 2 and 3 cities.
Their model proposes a hierarchical structure for cancer care, acting as a policy-making unit with an Apex center in the core, Tier 2 city as a hub for tertiary care, as the district headquarters nodal centers and primary cancer centers in high-east areas.
This emphasizes phased infrastructure upgradation, decentralization and integration of services through digital platforms.
According to experts, the proposed Snowflake Model Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Center (ABWCS), the National Cancer Grid (NCG) and the principles of the hub-end-spoke models. They all insist on taking advantage of technology such as decentralization, integration of services, improvement in access, and telemedicine to increase cancer care delivery. The snowflake model creates an analog hierarchical approach and the phased infrastructure upgrade by adding upgrade.
