Today’s world technology has reached heights of getting
anything and everything at your fingertips. World is revolutionizing and things
are more accessible to people instantly. This has benefited the healthcare
system too with more ease of access and availability of service to people.
Healthcare is the basic need of every human being and should be available for
everyone. But the richer section is facing the issue of more spending on out of
pocket in healthcare and the poorer section is facing issue of non-availability
of good healthcare due to lack of earnings and other socio-economic reasons. Of
300 Million households survey conducted by census board of India, 73% lived in
villages and within this, less than 5% earn enough to pay taxes, and less than
10 % have a salaried jobs. This stats proves that good healthcare is still not
in the reach of the majority in the country as 70% population still has limited
or no access to hospitals and clinics. This makes the rural population to rely
heavily on government programs that are executed in partnership with private
hospitals. India also faces issues with healthcare and infrastructure due the
private healthcare sectors running only on urban part of the country and rural
part is being untouched. Adding on to existing problems, the government of the
country spends only about 30% of the country’s total healthcare budget which is
one of the root cause of this problem.
Contrary to this Indian Pharmacy sector is one of the
biggest exporter in the world since the country produces drugs in lowest price
possible. Dipti Jain, in one of her article stated that “The poorest income classes receive fewer benefits from the
public health system than their better-o peers.” Adding to this Tata Institute
of Social science has analyzed that out of pocket expenditure in healthcare is
accounted for one sixth of Poverty of the country. The high cost of healthcare
is leading for the poor to be restrictive in seeking treatment and resulting
for health hazards.
Government along with private healthcare
sectors should together address this issue and find a comprehensive solution as
health welfare is not a comfort or a luxury but a basic need and right of every
citizen born in this country
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