right to health is equally important with right to food ,right to shelter or the right to education for the nation's development.
My evaluation of the phrase health sector reforms is different than the most talked about. How we are defining the patient for whom the system exists. According to my experience in India the Patient for a politician is nothing more than a voter, for a bureaucrat patient is one of the beneficiaries of the system, for private hospital he is a customer and in real sense the patient is patient for a doctor working in the Govt. set up. What I want to say that reforms in this sector can be made by simply changing the thought process and increasing the spending from aprox 1.2% to 3% of the GDP.
The major constrain in achieving the target
of right to health in Rajasthan State is that of Human Resources in
health Sector. We are at this point of time providing free consultation to patient,
free infrastructure at hospitals, medicines are being provided free as well as
the diagnostic services but need more skill mix of manpower to cope with
increased access and equity of under served population and demand generated in
the community. We really now need a policy to recruit and retain human resources
with public health care system in the state.
DR. P.C.RANKA, JAIPUR,RAJASTHAN, INDIA
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