{"id":128553,"date":"2021-08-25T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=128553"},"modified":"2021-08-26T16:52:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T11:22:37","slug":"why-india-needs-an-nhs-like-healthcare-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-india-needs-an-nhs-like-healthcare-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Why India needs an NHS-like healthcare model?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/post-covid-india-must-invest-in-an-nhs-like-health-model-7469094\/\">Indian Express<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Understanding issues in the Indian health sector<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: India&#8217;s health care sector is plagued with various issues which have been exposed during Covid crisis. Let&#8217;s have a brief look at issues affecting Indian health sector.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Health ministry has claimed in Parliament that Punjab has reported only four \u201csuspected\u201d deaths during the second Covid-19 wave due to lack of oxygen, which is against the ground reality.<\/p>\n<p>Even before the pandemic, similarly horrific healthcare tragedies occurred every single year like in 2017, 800 children died in Jharkhand of suspected encephalitis. In 2015, 18 patients died in a Chennai hospital, due to power failure after the floods. In 2014, 13 women died after illegal sterilisation at an overcrowded government health camp in Chhattisgarh.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Issues affecting the Health Sector<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Vacancy and absenteeism<\/strong>&#8211; According to Niti Aayog database, in the worst state of Bihar in 2017-18, positions for 60% of midwives, 50% of staff nurses, 34% of medical officers and 60% of specialist doctors were vacant. Those on the job, despite being handsomely paid, are chronically overworked.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Public Expenditure on health<\/strong>&#8211; Even after the pandemic, the Indian government continues to budget less than 1% of GDP for healthcare, one of the lowest in the world. In contrast, China invests around 3%, Britain 7% and the United States 17% of GDP.<\/li>\n<li><strong>High out of pocket of expenditure<\/strong>&#8211; 62% of health expenses in India are paid for by patients themselves. It is one of the main reason for families falling into poverty, especially during the pandemic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Global best practices<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Britain\u2019s National Health Service (NHS)<\/strong>&#8211; Britain\u2019s legendary health network cures 15 million patients with chronic ailments, at a fraction of the cost spent by the US. The NHS funded by direct taxes is also the fifth-largest employer in the world, after McDonald&#8217;s and Walmart. One of every 20 British workers is employed as doctor, nurse, catering and technical personnel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Indian Express Relevance: Understanding issues in the Indian health sector Synopsis: India&#8217;s health care sector is plagued with various issues which have been exposed during Covid crisis. Let&#8217;s have a brief look at issues affecting Indian health sector. Context The Health ministry has claimed in Parliament that Punjab has reported only four \u201csuspected\u201d deaths&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-india-needs-an-nhs-like-healthcare-model\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why India needs an NHS-like healthcare model?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,9317,8698,9318],"class_list":["post-128553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-health-infrastructure","tag-issues-related-with-health","tag-national-health-service","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704932806},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}