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Awareness Presentation on Medicare Health Care Scenario In India Kumar Abhishek_12206

Progress in health care system since independence: Polio Eradication: For the past three years India has been declared polio free country. Thanks to determination of government of India and various non governmental organizations every year millions of children below age of five years are administered polio vaccines. The infant mortality rate (IMR) has dropped from 150 in 1950 to 50 in 2013 (a three-fold reduction) The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) declined 10 folds from 2000 to 200 per 100,000 live births Life expectancy at birth has gone up from 31 to 65 years Sixty years ago the total number of physicians was 47,524, with doctor population ratio of 1 to 63007. Today, the number of registered medical practitioners is 840,130 (a 17-fold increase).Despite the population explosion (population has tripled) the overall doctor population ratio is now 1:1800 which reflects a 35 fold improvement Current Scenario: Indian Healthcare Industry is growing at rapid pace of 18%, which is fastest in the world. Currently India has 600,000 practicing physicians, 15,000 hospitals, 875,000 hospital beds, 737,000 nurses, 170 medical colleges ,50,000 pathology laboratories and 350,000 retail pharmacies. India produces 18,000 new doctors every year. In spite of this there are 3 million cancer cases, 34 million diabetics, 10million HIV patients. 150 million people suffer from hypertension, 40million from asthma and 1.5 million from Alzheimer. Challenges: Vast population: India is home to 1.2 billion people. It is almost impossible to meet the requirements of every person. Illiteracy: Around 25% of Indias rural population is illiterate. This creates difficulty in prevention and treatment of diseases. Inaccessible areas: Vast tracts of land are inaccessible. There hardly any metallic roads to connect villages from nearest cities. Lack of primary health care centres : Many villages lack primary health care centres to treat common diseases.

 Expensive health care facilities by private players: India is a country were around 30% of population lives below poverty line, while it takes thousands of rupees to get treatment in private hospitals.

Questions: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) What are the key achievements of India in health care sector since independence? What are the key challenges faced by India in providing basic health care? How can swamis health care mission be a model for providing basic health care in India? Should government leave health care sector to the private players? Medical students have to huge amount of money in form of donations for their education. Sometimes this fees run into crores of rupees. To recover their investment in their education these doctors have no choice but to charge high amount from patients. In light of the above information do you think doctors are morally justified in charging higher fees from their clients?