Budget Series: Health Sector

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The NHPS which will be providing coverage for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization will have approximately 50 crore beneficiaries. TB patients will be provided support at the rate of Rs.500/month for the duration of their treatment.
It is an insult to the people’s intelligence to announce a grand scheme without forethought or preparation or money in the last year of the term of the government.

We don’t necessarily need more allocations rather we need to use the allocations we have more effectively by prioritising improvement of basic health facilities such as infrastructure of hospitals, adequate number of qualified doctors and nurses and, availability of generic medicines.

India has one doctor for 1,681 persons (2016 data) and one government doctor for 11,528 persons, against the World Health Organization’s norm of one doctor for 1,000 persons. We produce only 55,000 graduate doctors and 25,000 post-graduate doctors every year. Each doctor carries the burden of at least two doctors.
Our healthcare system is broadly divided into three categories: public/government hospitals, private for-profit hospitals and private not-for-profit hospitals. Because of lackadaisical administration, public hospitals (with notable exceptions like AIIMS-New Delhi, JIPMER-Puducherry and a few others) are seen as inefficient, turning away patients and refusing to take normal risks while treating a patient while many taluk and district-level hospitals have become just referral hospitals.

 CREDITS : AKHILA 1st year
                   DEVINA 1st year

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