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Business News/ Politics / Policy/  Jaipur Foot to be Harvard Business School case study
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Jaipur Foot to be Harvard Business School case study

Study on Jaipur foot as a business and healthcare model prepared by the university is ready and will be introduced tentatively next month

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Jaipur: Jaipur Foot, the artificial limb which helped over more than 1.3 million people walk again, will soon become a case study for students of Harvard Business School in the US. The study on Jaipur foot as a business and healthcare model prepared by the university is ready and will be introduced tentatively next month in the university.

Physically challenged, particularly financially weak and underprivileged, people are helped with the Jaipur Foot by NGO, Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), which manufactures the artificial limb and is the world’s biggest organization for the differently-abled.

The foot, which costs around 2,500, is given free to patients by the organization that was set by Devendra Raj Mehta more than three decades ago. It also makes arrangements for accommodation of patients coming from outstations.

“In the study by the business school, areas like creation of the model and its system, its sustainability, patient-centric management, technology and financial management have been covered," Mehta, chief patron of the organization, said on Saturday.

The study is conducted by Prof. Srikant Datar, an Indian American professor at Harvard Business School under India Research programme. “Around 60,000 people visit our centre annually and 24,000-25,000 people are fitted with the Jaipur Foot. We have fitted close to 1.35 million people with the artificial limb so far. This gives mobility and dignity to disabled," Mehta, former Sebi chairman, said.

“We have a patient-centric system and give the foot free of cost to all patients. We have open door facility and a patient is first admitted then he is registered," he said. Mehta said that the insight of the system would help business students understand how such a low-cost product could be sustained. PTI

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Published: 17 Aug 2013, 10:21 PM IST
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