Rural health care needs fixing, and now (The Hindu, GS-2, Health)

04 Jun Rural health care needs fixing, and now (The Hindu, GS-2, Health)

Posted at 04 Jun 2021 in Current Affairs, Governance, GS Paper II by Swarn Singh 0 Comments

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Context:- covid-19 expose the state of rural health infrastructure by devastating the rural population, its social and economic infrastructure

Facts about rural health infra

Rajya Sabha suggest that 29,337 primary health centres (PHCs) are required in the rural areas of the country
One PHC for 25 villages in India
5,624 community health centres (CHCs) against the requirement of 7,322
a shortfall of 81.8% specialists at CHCs
India has eight hospital beds for a population of 10,000 people
According to WHO 71% deaths are because of non-communicable disease.

What is the need to be done in order to save rural population:-

governments should engage with all kinds of rural community organisations such as panchayats, gram sabha, notified area committees, municipal bodies and nongovernmental organisation
If our SHCs work effectively, there will be less pressure on PHCs.
All stakeholder approach
stakeholders to revisit and refurbish our health infrastructure in the rural areas.
The chain of SHCs, PHCs and CHCs can very well take care of the multiple health needs
should have the health data of people in their respective areas.

Plutus IAS Current Affair Team Member