HEALTH-n-CARE

 Hello everyone, we are back here with some "No Comments" on India’s public healthcare system.

We are Indians, and I don't think we are satisfied with anything that the government does. But it is not completely our fault. Despite almost 33000 crores of the health budget, people prefer private hospitals above government hospitals. The reason lies in the stats, our dissatisfaction with doctors and hospital conditions.

Let’s take a view of the statistics.

 1.20% of all maternal deaths and 25% of child death in the world occur in India.

2. 34 out of 1000 children are dead by the age of 5.

3. Only 39% of Indians are immunized in urban areas.

The Indian government has launched a lot of schemes which look quite good on paper but there is nothing out in the field. All the schemes are mere theories on paper with no practical existence. Do you know what the best part is? We have never heard anyone talking about it. It has never been a political topic during elections because there are more critical and burning questions to be addressed- "Ye Ram mandir kab banega?", "Aaloo se kitna Sona niklega?", "intzaar ka fal kitne achhe din layega?".

 And personally, we never care about it. We never question it. Tell me if you ever did.

Those kids die because of low-quality care, corruption, lack of accountability, unethical care, overcrowding. These factors force wealthier Indians to use the private healthcare system, which is less accessible to low-income families, creating unequal medical treatment opportunities between classes.

The condition becomes worse when we move to Bihar where the number of doctors is 0.3 per 10000 individuals. I don't think the situation can worsen.

 We are used to sleeping until a tragedy occurs or a crisis hits or an epidemic outbreaks. We can take examples of Death in Gorakhpur hospitals where 62 children died in just 72 hours and we were like… “Ohhh! Bahut bura hua”. It didn’t even get enough attention from news channels. It was a big crisis but did we know the names of the people responsible?

It came into limelight for a while but we don’t know whether the guilty were punished or not. People talk about humanity but they do nothing except bragging about it. I don't know about you but I can imagine the pain of the parents.

Another example is the outbreak of swine flu in India clamming over 1230 lives in 2015. We are even deprived of basic facilities, how can we, then, hope to control the disaster? We have made great progress according to the Government but what I see every day completely contradicts the statements and facts of the government. This is also exactly what the graph says.

Questions will remain unanswered until we don’t ask them. Please don’t be heartless. When you talk about humanity you must show it. Let us not focus on the irrelevant stuff and politics, rather on quality life- healthcare, facilities, resources. Because who knows, one day a private hospital does not admit your kid and you have to go to the government hospital. We hope that day never comes.

India’s healthcare is a crisis because we systematically neglect wellness, accept illness, and compromise with lives…

We will be back with a never-ending conversation between two women in the same context.

Goodbye till then.

Decide what you want…

This rift which never ends…

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This smile…

Bhanu, Aryan