Present Medical Services in Our Country is for 25% Urban Population

The Present Scenario

After 55 years of our Independence too the medical facilities availability in our rural India is just minimal. Still rural and semi urban people depend on quacks for medical facilities. These quacks are practicing and using modern drugs with quite ease, many a times in support from the local authorities. They also claim a good level of respect and support fro the rural society. Why? The government medical supports to the rural sector in the form of Primary Health Centers are practically non-existence as far as the rural community is concerned. It need not be mentioned here where the doctors posted in these PHC are. We well know what sort of agitations government has to face when strictness is followed for the postings in rural sector.

Once a medical candidate completes his MBBS he restrains to get a posting in rural area or even go for private practice there. This is an established fact, whatever motivations and scheme, government has to given. Thus the quacks are making fun in rural India.  Government cannot ban them in practice because nothing else exists and if it does there will be havoc where in people will start dieing.

Most of the rural population has to depend on non-allopathic doctors for their health care needs. The government health care infrastructure caters to only 25 per cent of the population. Under these circumstances, "cross practice" is inevitable. People have to go to non-allopathic doctors for injuries, inoculations, snake bites, etc., for which non-allopathic disciplines have no effective therapy. Preventing a homeopath from administering a tetanus toxic injection because homeopathy does not include injections would amount to depriving a patient of essential health care.
The prevalent situation is the outcome of the mismanagement and wrong policies of the last 50 years. The solutions offered by the government and the medical profession in this debate are ad hoc and do not take into account the needs of the people and the evolution of health care services over the decades.

Then what should be done?

The Government, the authority and the society cannot sit back, without any solutions for rural India. In almost every professional field there are three levels of education; for example take the Engineering field- we have Graduate Engineers, then the Diploma Engineers and thirdly ITI tradesmen.  In the medical field we have MBBS, BAMS or BHMS Doctors and then Nurses, Midwifes, Compounders or Paramedics but then where are the diploma sort of people. There is a need for them at least in the Indian Scenario.

So is the need of: Rural Practitioner in Holistic Medicine & Surgery (RPHMS)

Rural Practitioner in Holistic Medicine & Surgery