Stressing on the Distressed Analogy of the Healthcare in India

If these numbers fail to make you acknowledge the demands of human resources of the public health sectors, the following data will help you realize the current position of the country’s health care. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends 1 doctor of modern medicine for over 1000 people but India today has 1 doctor over approximately 13000 people. The WHO further highlights that a government hospital must have 3 beds for over 1000 people in the country in contrast to which Indian Government hospitals have hardly 1 bed for the same number of people. Though the government of India aspires to achieve 2 beds per 1000 people in this decade, the government hospitals of the center have 1 bed for approximately 18000 people whereas, the state government hospitals have 1-bed facilities for over 56000 people.

The current covid crisis has revealed the gross deficiency in the healthcare resources of the country, Although the crisis is unprecedented and the government has taken very sincere actions to contain the first stage of the pandemic, the second stage has come as a tsunami and caught us by surprise.

This is not the time to look back and start analyzing what went wrong. This is the time to look ahead and take the right actions. Resources in terms of beds, equipment, medicines, and oxygen can be created and imported, but trained human resources are limited. It is better to have some formally trained resources in this time of crisis than to have no resources at all.

The suggestions of Dr. Shetty may be one of the ways ahead on reducing the brunt of the already burnt-out and fatigued medical and nursing professionals.

All the trainee nurses, postgraduates, and the foreign medical graduates waiting for the examination can be deployed to relieve some of the routine burdens from the shoulders of the specialized manpower who can then focus on the specific care whereas routine care, care of mild to moderately severe patients, teleconsultations and triaging can be done by these professionals

As the discussion of the problem is pretty evident in every medium, digital or non-digital it’s about time we look for a solution. Dr. Shetty’s valuable experience and suggestion could definitely be a way to overcome this obstacle that is imposed by the time on our country.

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