1. India’s life expectancy (68 years in 2015) and its number of hospital beds per 1,000 population (0.9) are among the lowest in BRICs nations.
in these times of Day care centric treatment,is it necessary to have more number of beds?
2. Seventy five percent of dispensaries, 60% of hospitals and 80% doctors are located in urban areas, serving only 28% of India.
skewed distribution of health care resources is the chronic malady of our nation.
among 600 total districts,some districts have good number of doctors,nurses and beds but majority of districts in central and north eastern india have severe deficit.
3. India’s total healthcare expenditure (BOTH GOVT & PATIENT'S POCKETS COMBINED) is about 4.1% of the GDP, which is among the lowest in the world.
unless every citizen has hygienic mindset and concern for public health, no amount could give solace to the nation!
4. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for nearly 60% of deaths in India annually. The country is estimated to lose $4.58 trillion by 2030 due to them.
good habits and better public health measures only could prevent these life style diseases.
5. the country has the lowest number of MODERN DOCTORS per 10,000 population among BRICs nations.
we have enough MBBS doctors but with negligible clinical skills.so, we have to empower the entire MBBS brigade with skill enhancement programs and prospectively we have to change our curriculum and syllabus and training methods in our health universities and medical colleges.
Also we have enhance the clinical PG seats to make 1UG: 1PG ratio.
6. In rural India, only 37% of people had access to In-Patient Department (IPD) facilities within a 5 km distance while only 68 per cent had access to an Out-Patient Department (OPD).
i think,its not a small achievement considering our demography. adding to this, in these times of technology enriched health care i.e. telemedicine, smart sensors attached smart phones playing as game changers, so even paramedics can extract vital parameters and pass them to specialist doctors to get diagnosis and treatment and further evaluation.
7. “Nearly 63 million people are in debt due to health expenditure. its old finding. now as on 2016, 70% people are covered by govt sponsored health insurance schemes&programs.
8.Only one in five doctors in rural India are qualified. THE REMAINING ARE QUACKS. Even though “Quackery is mostly dealt at the state level as state medical council’s have been given the authority to act against quacks and According to the Supreme Court rulings, practitioners of alternate medicine cannot prescribe allopathic medicine,” quacks and crosspathy practice are rampant in india.
IMA repeatedly demanding for needy amendments in IPC to tackle this problem and suggested that the medical councils should have more i.e. magisterial powers to deal with quacks and crosspathy practitioners .
unless we have robust monitoring system over the health care, any number of health programs doesn't benefit the nation.
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