Health is Wealth

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‘Health is wealth’, and for those million of poor people ‘health is the only wealth’. The sole principle of the Bhore committee ‘no individual should fail to secure adequate medical care because of inability to pay for it’ remains unattainable in the country shamefully even after 60 years of independence. The Bhore committee in 1946 had recommended achieving minimum 567 hospital beds, 62 doctors, and 151 nurses per 100,000 populations. Unfortunately, the country has achieved 40 doctors, a mere 100 hospital beds per 100,000 populations. Thus it results in 2.2 million plus infants dying every year, 407+ mothers die due to pregnancy related causes for every 100,000 live births even today, 540 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, over 0.5 million people die every year due to tuberculosis et al. Major damages happen to the rural India where health facilities are beyond the reach of common people.

Unfortunately, in such a big country like India, there are about 22,400 primary health centers, 11,200 hospitals, and 27,400 dispensaries. Though private players’ penetration has improved the health facilities in India, Bharat remains deprived of it. The country of a billion plus population has around 1.5 million doctors, 0.9 million nurses. Inspite of the fact that the rate at which India is producing MBBS is very low; limited seat availability for post graduate programmes is forcing many pass-outs to choose foreign destinations. In order to produce more quality doctors, 75 AIIMS like institute should be opened across India. In order to provide million of people medical facilities under one roof, 75 Special Hospitals Zones should be started, wherein almost all facilities and equipment should be available. Moreover, these Special Hospital Zones should have almost all form of specialised department. One more indicator to add salt to the wound is inadequate health insurance coverage where barely 3% of the countrymen are covered by social or private insurance.

However, the importance of health can never be ignored. Failure to provide health facilities will simply break the very foundation of the society. Hence increasing the numbers with adequate public-private partnership will help achieve at least what Mr. Bhore recommended 50 years ago.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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