{"id":235008,"date":"2023-03-29T19:28:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=235008"},"modified":"2023-03-29T19:28:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T13:58:10","slug":"healthcare-in-india-has-made-great-progress-but-challenges-remain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/healthcare-in-india-has-made-great-progress-but-challenges-remain-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare in India has made great progress, but challenges remain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cHealthcare in India has made great progress, but challenges remain\u201d <\/strong>published in \u201cThe Indian Express\u201d <\/strong>on 28th March 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Issues related to development and management of health<\/p>\n

News-<\/strong> The article deals with challenges faced by the healthcare sector in India.<\/p>\n

What are the achievements of India in healthcare?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In 2007, it was estimated that India would achieve a total fertility rate of 2.1 only by 2041. India has achieved this by 2020.<\/p>\n

High maternal and infant mortality seemed very difficult to overcome in 2010. Ten years later, the latest NFHS-5 findings show that in BIMARU states, hospital deliveries have soared to 89 per cent.<\/p>\n

What are the challenges faced by the healthcare sector in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Non-communicable diseases <\/strong>– Cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes are increasing. They all share four behavioural risk factors<\/strong> \u2014 an unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity and use of tobacco and alcohol.<\/p>\n

\u2018India: Health of the nation\u2019s states\u2019 report<\/strong> estimated that the proportion of deaths due to non-communicable diseases has increased from around 38% in 1990 to 62% in 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obesity has increased from 19% to 23% between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5<\/strong>. Among Delhi\u2019s citizens, 38 per cent were found to be obese, followed by Tamil Nadu and Kerala. This increases the risk of diabetes, hypertension, and CVD.<\/p>\n

Inequalities in the state of infrastructure<\/strong>– Since 2018, governments at the Centre as well as the state are establishing health and wellness centres.<\/strong> But a 2022 report by the Centre for Community Medicine in AIIMS<\/strong> found huge variations between states.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some northeastern states like Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland were found to have better arrangements. The lowest proportions of primary health facilities were in Jharkhand, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n

Inequalities<\/strong>– In urban areas, the challenge is to bridge the gap<\/strong> in hospital services between large urban agglomerations and tier II and tier III cities.<\/p>\n

A recent Lancet publication<\/strong> found that core health services are not uniform <\/strong>across state-run district hospitals. Just 16% of the district hospitals in Tamil Nadu offered all key services. In some states, it was just 1%. People have to bank on the private sector.<\/p>\n

Large hospital chains like Apollo, Fortis\u00a0 account for just 4-5% of the beds in the private sector. Standalone hospitals and nursing homes provide 95% of private hospital beds. They are unable to provide multi-specialty, tertiary and quaternary care. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Insurance and high expenditure on health<\/strong>– The other problems centre around low health insurance penetration and the very high personal outgo<\/strong> on healthcare. From 2018, the Ayushman Bharat insurance<\/strong> scheme for 10 crore poor families has been undertaken. Nearly 74% of Indians are either covered or eligible for health insurance coverage.<\/p>\n

However, millions remain uninsured. Out-patient doctor consultation costs, diagnostics, and drugs<\/strong> account for around 50% of the total health expenditure.<\/p>\n

It is, therefore, essential to provide insurance for the unorganised middle class<\/strong> and to include identified out-patient costs.<\/p>\n

Use of Artificial Intelligence and digital technology<\/strong>– Use of AI for healthcare is welcome. But there are ethical and regulatory concerns <\/strong>related to it. A new dimension has made the regulation of healthcare even more compelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cHealthcare in India has made great progress, but challenges remain\u201d published in \u201cThe Indian Express\u201d on 28th March 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Issues related to development and management of health News- The article deals with challenges faced by the healthcare sector in India. What are the achievements of… Continue reading Healthcare in India has made great progress, but challenges remain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"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":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-235008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235008","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}