ALOCHANA

ALOCHANA

1. At present we have 0.9% of national income towards health. This should be increased at least to 3%.

2. PHCs are to be provided with infrastructure.

3. Every PHC should be given an ambulance.

4. There should be an MRI, and a CT scan, at district HQ hospitals.

5. The vacant posts of nurses, male nurses, and other paramedics should be employed.

6. The number of doctors available to the public should be increased.

7. Preventive steps should be given priority than cure methods.

8. Vaccines should be given regularly.

9. Potable water is to be provided. With many diseases like typhoid, dysentery, hepatitis-B, fluorosis like diseases can be cured.

10. Good sanitary facilities should be provided which can prevent diseases like dengue, yellow fever, malaria, etc.

11. Training hospitals should be taken up to super-specialty hospitals.

12. every private nursing home should get registered. They should be made accountable to the public.

In our state

In training hospitals 1,024 posts are lying vacant. No body is applying for. So the government should enhance salaries to get our intelligentsia from brain drain.

In our state there are 23,000 villages and 35,000 habita-tions. At present we have 1570 PHCs, 12,255 sub-centres.  These are far away to meet the rural people.

For every one thousand people one unit should be formed in rural India.  In that one trained health assistant, one lady assistant, and a compounder are to be posted.

Those RMPs who have already settled and treating people should be retained as they are. If needed such are to be trained.

As per government’s modifications in health department – main document –

            The present number of doctors, and health assistants, are not sufficient. It should be modified keeping the ever growing population in view.

            To get medical specialists in rural India, attractive salaries are to be given.

            The present day technology-- ultra sonography--is very useful to identify the gender of the baby.  Thus a female baby can be killed, or abortioned. This is reducing male-female ratio. For every 1000 boys the girls ratio in Punjab is 874, in Haryana 861, in Chandigarh 773, in Tamil Nadu 986, and so on. This is really a dangerous situation. The government should take proper steps in this issue.

            The government should do something to improve Human Development Index figures;

In human resources development India stands in  135 position.

            We do not have per capita income but per capita debt. Every baby born in India is in a debt of 22,000 rupees.

            Among 174 countries, India stands in 39^th position in poverty.

            India has to march a lot to achieve minimum needs to its people. China got independence two years later             than us. But it is in number one world countries list. Its per capita income is 9700 dollars. It plays a prominent role in UNO. When the whole world was facing financial crisis, it conducted Olympics and showed to the world how economically powerful it is.