Indian healthcare system- a stigma.

India, today is a nation engulfed by thousands of prospects and incentives of growth while on the other hand at the same time is shrouded by innumerable catastrophes waiting it to fall into the ditch of poverty, corruption and lack of technology and many more harsh things.

Among these things stands Indian healthcare system, which even today continues to be marked as a blot on the image of this developing India. Health of the denizens of the nation means more than anything else in determining the further course of advancement of the nation. If the health of the nation is robust and appreciable then the nation is surely going to bear a deluge of assets which can truly help in the process of nation building while on the other hand if the health of the citizens is not satisfactorily good then the nation is sure to plunge to the nadir to be bound by the fetters of innumerable problems which in the long run hinder as well as sabotage the progress of the nation.

Today’s Indian healthcare system can’t be even called a healthcare system and the quality of health services being provided in the nation continue to stigmatize the nation. Here are some shocking truth revealing facts which can shock you completely to the hilt,

WHO (World Health Organisation) has claimed that India can be ranked as one of the lowest in the availability of beds in the nation. Currently there are 0.9 beds for 1000 citizens of the nation which is far worse than the global average of 2.9 beds and according to Indian’s national health profile there are around 0.5 beds for 1000 citizens of the nation.

The other thing is the lack of hospitals. As I just mentioned the lack of the number of beds in the whole of the nation, India continues to fare badly in the number of hospitals in the nation and also in the efficaciousness of the hospitals around the nation. In India there are only 11,613 government hospitals in India in which the poor can be treated but unfortunately out of these 11,613 only a few hospital (just like AIIMS) are able to be up to the mark. Due to various problems at the grass root level, like corruption in the government hospitals, lack of perfect and required machinery in order to operate the patients continue to shift the whole of the burden on the shoulders of the pauper citizens. In India a liver transplant costs more than Rs. 24 Laks per person and unfortunately except AIIMS, operation like liver transplants etc. are not being done in other government hospitals leading to demise of lakhs of poor around the nation.

 One more thing to note here is the declining standard of the AIIMS also. Today the salary of doctors at AIIMS start at Rs. 51,600 which is pretty dismal if we compare it to the hard work that the aspirants do in order to become doctors upto the standard of AIIMs and currently researchers doing their work at AIIMS are resigning from the institution in order to practice medicine outside India in nations like US and UK where medical practitioners are revered for their hard work and necessity.

Currently India spends a meager 4 per cent of the GDP(Gross Domestic Product) on the health care system of India which is far lower than many other nations. On the other hand People’s Republic of China spends around 5.4% of its GDP on the healthcare system and Unites States of America spends around 17.9% of its GDP on the healthcare system. If we talk about the healthcare then you would find out that there is not even a healthcare system in India. Nation like USA and UK prepared their whole of the healthcare with so many benefits to the ordinary citizen a long time ago but even today India is unable to take the benefits of medical advancement to the house of common Indian people and this has definitely exacerbated the whole of situation.

One more thing to mention here is that there is not equitable distribution of medical facilities around the nation also. In some rich posh areas there are lot of private institutions while at some places there is not even a government hospital for the people. According to a report, rural citizens of the nation have to travel around 30 km in order to reach the nearest hospital available for them.

All this shows the neglect through which our healthcare system is undergoing and this surely is something to detest. A nation with 33% of the population as youth is not even able to provide a good healthcare system to the citizens of the nation. Today if we want our citizens not to die of various diseases which are even curable we need to think, if we want to see our nation progressing, then we surely need to think in order to stop our nation from disintegrating into a land of epidemics and disasters.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI