"IIM Shillong professors are schooling the doctors in sustainable healthcare project, hospital planning and management, leadership and motivation, management of finance and accounting with the support of Harvard cases," an IIM release said. "They also undertake field visits and healthcare research after completing 14 days of class-room learning, group exercise, case analysis and simulation," the IIM release read.
The release said the team of doctors, which visited the 1935-established Ganesh Das Hospital in Shillong, was surprised with its lack of facilities to handle the 1200 to 2000 deliveries occurring in a month.
The team noted that the hospital admitted more pregnant women than it could handle and emphasized on the need to find out why these deliveries could not be managed at primary health centres.
The team of doctors, mostly from the Garo Hills, also visited the Shillong Civil Hospital and recommended adequate manpower and equipment with backup for all departments, provision for blood bank or blood storage facilities, treatment plant for effluent, more emergency rooms and ICU beds.