Coping up with the rural healthcare problems in India

There is an acute shortage of trained and qualified healthcare providers in rural India. In fact in many Primary Health centres and subcenters, there is a team of auxiliary nurse, multi skilled male health worker and some health assistance who generally take care of the most of the patients. A study showed that the Public Health Care Centres require 25650 doctors across India to get to a minimum of 40 patients per doctor per day in any outpatient setting.

It is vital to strengthen the PHCs and the sub centres in the rural areas which can eventually reduce the burden on the secondary health institutions such as the district hospitals or the block Community Health centres. With the lack of qualified doctors in the rural setting, the distribution of health care and treatment also goes askew.

One of the other issues that affect the rural health care system is that the health workers practicing are not properly qualified. A World Health Organisation report showed that amongst the urban and rural allopathic doctors, only 58 and 13% of them are medically qualified respectively.

The non accessibility of proper healthcare and medicinal services turns the local rural health into a widespread problem. Even more unfortunate are more those few rural population that can visit the urban hospitals who ends up spending more than 60% of their personal savings on the medical expenses. This is because the private healthcare facilities are extremely expensive given the standard of living of the rural folks. Additionally, being illiterate, most of the mass fails to understand where they actually need to pay and where they are being cheated.

It goes without saying that adequate health facilities are need of the hour. It needs special attention to give quality care to the area where about 70% of the country's population live. Moreover it is important to make them understand about the importance of proper sanitation, nutrition and hygiene which can save them from preventive diseases.

Lastly, the supply of basic medicines is extremely irregular in remote parts of the country. Even though there are fair price shops in tertiary and secondary care hospitals, it is not always equipped with the necessary medicines and appliances.

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