Medical Facilities
No medicines available even in dispensaries. Not basic tools/instruments or basic facilities are available in the hospitals even that governments forcing the doctors to extend their services in rural areas!! What they will do there without basic facilities? Recently in the list of 177 countries India ranked 126 in Human Development Index, with all this we are expecting to be a super power soon!! There is a need of 1000s of new hospitals with hi-tech facilities for society. Its shameful that India spend less than 1% (among the list of lowest spending countries, 18th lowest in the world) of total GDP on health care. Its surprising that in has come down to 0.9% from 1991 in 1.3%. What strategies will in India be following for being a developed nation till 2020, its a one of the major question. 150 million Indians are blind. 2.13 per cent of the total population (21.9 million) lives with disabilities in India. Yet, only 34 per cent of the disabled are employed [Census 2001] India has the single highest share of neonatal deaths in the world, 2.1 million. 107,000 Leprosy patients live in India. 15.3 % of the population does not survive to the age of forty. Serpent attacks kill as many as 50,000 Indians while the cobra occupies a hallowed place in the Hindu religion!! Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in India. India accounts for one-fifth of the global TB incident cases. Each year about 1.8 million people in India develop TB, of which 0.8 million are infectious cases. It is estimated that annually around 330,000 Indians die due to TB. 58% of India's children below the age of 2 years are not fully vaccinated. And 24% of these children do not receive any form of vaccination. 95 in every 1000 children born in India do not see their fifth birthday. 70 in every 1000 children born in India do not see their first birthday. India has only 650,000 physicians, i.e. 0.6 per 1000 people. In USA this ratio is 2.56 per 1000. All western have at-least four times higher density of doctors than India. Much more troubling is only India has largest number of patients with tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, leprosy & many other diseases. India lags far behind the Western world in average life expectancy and has much higher infant mortality rates. So, we can safely assume the demand for healthcare professionals in India far exceeds the supply. How India will fill this gap when doctors from India are leaving for abroad? Here is nothing wrong in leaving for abroad when there are no basic facilities in hospitals. What they will do there in hospitals without basic needs/facilities; sitting idle?? Considering the higher price of hospitalization & poverty, many people have no other option rather than to sell their own organs for survival. A day is not far away when poor people will be seen selling their organs (kidney, lungs etc) at footpath!! It seems India governments will take only then some necessary actions. Almost daily news come all over the India about kidney scam etc in which all are involved from doctors to police to political leaders. All these get huge money only at loss if the poor who get lost his organs & also dont get anything. http://www.youtube.com/dalitjade Know Buddha, Know Life No Buddha, No Life..!
