#Thread #Healthcare #India

Presence of affordable, good quality and easily accessible healthcare may look like a basic service in any society in 21st century.

Here are four news pieces in today's "Loksatta" newspaper showing you what is wrong with healthcare in India.

Trained manpower is fundamental to health services. It is manpower intensive service. In spite of poor doctor:patient ratio and availability of adequate funds, local govt can't be bothered to create post graduate seats.
Money wasted.

Available govt health infra is almost deliberately neglected so public is forced to purchase private healthcare.
A scathing analysis -

Doctors and nurses in govt hospitals are perennially under pressure from officers and politicians. Poor working conditions, inhumane work load and bullying are the reasons why doctors are reluctant to apply for govt jobs.

So private enterprise must step in to fill the gap. Small nursing homes provide affordable primary and secondary care near home of the patient but successive govt policies are aimed at driving them out of business. Even in face of a deadly epidemic govt pressure is relentless.

Inadequate manpower

Poorly maintained govt hospital

Bullying of govt healthcare staff

Relentless pressure on small nursing homes.

All add up to -

Privatization of healthcare AND concentrating it in the hands of big corporates via insurance driven failed american model.

THIS is future of your healthcare.

But as a one of million practicing doctors, I see general public busy in watching television dramas and carelessly walking around without masks.

Where do you get this confidence?

Pl. tell me. As indian doctor, I desperately need that answer.

Total ignorance about healthcare will drive you to ill health and poverty.

Ask Americans how their insurance driven corporate healthcare has totally failed them.

Best of luck.

And of course

#JaiHind