Rural Health Care

INTRODUCTION:

Rural Health care is one of biggest challenges faced by the Health

Ministry of India . A majority of 700 million people lives in rural areas

which accounts for more than 70 percent population where the condition

of medical facilities is deplorable. With such low level of health

facilities the mortality rates are on an high due to diseases and other

factors.

Primary rural health care refers to the health promotion of the rural

people .

India also accounts for the largest number of maternity deaths. A

majority of which are in rural areas where maternal health care is poor .

31% of the population travels more than 30 km’s to seek healthcare in rural India and 66% of rural Indians do not have the access to the critical

medicines

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTERS:

In rural India, where the number of Primary health care centers

is limited, 8% of the centers do not have doctors or medical

staff, 39% do not have lab technicians and 18% of health centers

do not even have a pharmacist.

Parallel to the public health sector, is indeed the more popular

the private medical sector of India. Both urban and rural Indian

households tend to use the private medical sector more

frequently than the public sector, as reflected in surveys due to

the facilities and faculties. Though there is high standards in

private sector they do not serve/ invest in rural areas.

QUALITY OF HEALTH

The quality of Indian healthcare is varied. In major urban areas,

healthcare is of adequate quality, approaching and occasionally

meeting Western standards. However, access to quality medical care

is limited or unavailable in most rural areas

Healthcare is the right of every individual but lack of quality

infrastructure, dearth of qualified medical functionaries, and non-

access to basic medicines and medical facilities thwarts its reach to

60% of population in India.

The National Health Policy was endorsed by the Parliament of India in 1983

and updated in 2002.

Though a lot of policies and programs are being run by the Government but

the success and effectiveness of these programs is questionable due to gaps in

the implementation

GOVERNMENT POLICIES:

ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

THE PROBLEMS :

Due to non accessibility to public health care and low quality of health care

services, a majority of people in India turn to the local private health sector

as their first choice of care.

If we look at the health landscape of India 92 percent of health care visits are

to private providers of which 70 percent is urban population

The trained doctors are less in INDIA around 30000 doctors per year

It’s a six year course and it’s expansive in INDIA To control the spread of diseases and reduce the growing rates of mortality

due to lack of adequate health facilities, special attention needs to be given to

the health care in rural areas.

The challenges in the health care sector are low quality of care, poor

accountability, lack of awareness, and limited access to facilities.

THOUGH

PEOPLE IN

VILLAGES SAY

THEY ARE IN

PEACE THE

SURVEY

RESULTS DON’T

SAY SO…

THESE ARE ANOTHER

SURVEY RESULTS ON THE

NUMBER OF CHILDREN

TREATED IN HOSPITALS.

HIGH INFANT

MORTALITY RATE

OTHER MAJOR PROBLEMS:

Approximately 1.72

million children die

each year before

turning one

he under five

mortality and infant

mortality rates have

been declining,

from 202 and 190

deaths per thousand

live births

respectively in 1970

to 64 and 50 deaths

per thousand live

births in 2009

Only 11% of Indian

rural families dispose

of stools safely

whereas 80% of the

population leave

their stools in the

open or throw them

in the garbage.

Open air defecation

leads to the spread of

disease and

malnutrition through

parasitic and

bacterial infections

due to no clear

knowledge about the

Diseases and the

safety measures

DEMANDS AND SUPPLY OF HEALTHCARE

SERVICES:

Our technology is the main toll for the development of the RURAL

HEALTH CARE . This improves both accuracy and efficiency of

healthcare services at their hospitals. Technology is also being used

to access high quality specialists who may not be physically located

at the hospitals.

The infrastructure of the hospitals though were designed and built

better the improper maintenance ruined it. Proper steps must be taken

to maintain the available infrastructure

Rural health centers though does not require high facility, but

improvement in the current facility is required.

The emotional content of patient and family member healthcare

experiences must be recorded and can serve as the foundation for

patient-centered healthcare improvement

The shifting education paradigm that leverages videos and massive

online open courses and the implication of these developments for

the patient-doctor encounter

OUR INNOVATIONS TO IMPROVE RURAL

HEALTH CARE:

The accessibility to very remote areas in case of emergency is still a

question mark.

Awareness on the common causes of widespread diseases should be

given as an individual counseling to people instead of organizing

mass camps.

Widespread adoption of electronic health records and electronic

clinical documentation, health care organizations will have greater

faculty to review clinical data and evaluate the efficacy of quality

improvement efforts.

Pay-for-performance program should be implemented in which the

medical practioners must be paid according to their performance in

rural areas.

Screening of cancer initially and awareness mainly on breast cancer

must be spread among women.

Funds must be raised to improve the sanitation facilities which is the

primary cause of many diseases.

Several organizations are working alongside the government and

NGOs to help relieve the burden on the public health system . These

volunteers who are willing to serve the people in rural areas should

be backed-up with required funding.

.

MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE,

MAKE IT A BETTER INDIA,

MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE FOR YOU AND

FOR ME AND THE ENTIRE HUMAN RAYS.

Thank you

ARAVIND.C

ASHWIN KARTHICK.N

KARTHIK.R.M

JAYA PRASANTH

PRASANTH.P