India's much touted and hyped Primary Health Care concept has been on since ages but the ground reality is altogether a different story.
Any Intern who has been ever posted at a Rural Govt PHC knows What a farce in the name of health services does the gov. offers. I was posted at a Govt PHC recently and went through some of the shocking pictures of medical negligence.
My Medical Officers in prescribing medicines did not even care to ask what the complaint of the patient was. On an avg he just spent 15 seconds in prescribing the medicine to the patient and moving on to the next. The examination table in the corner of the room looks like it has not been used since ages. I unfortunately being a green-horn in the working pf PHCs asked my patient to lie down on the table so that i can examine him. To my amazment there was atleast 1 inch of dirt on the table.
Then suddenly the lights went off..Daily load shedding my MO said..that amounts to around 8 hours of ancient world. A patient came with a foreign Body in the eye. To my second shock of the day there was no TORCH in the PHC for me to view the eye and remove the foreign body. I had to use my nokia as the light source....Improvisation thts the first thing medical colleges should teach i say!!...
The sphygomanometer was out of mercury since i guess 6 months so...you can guess where the hypertensive patients would be getting there monitoring done!!....
and oh i forget to mention My MO didnt have a Stethoscope with him....didnt need it he said....can catch a disease from the pulse i must say!!!!!.....
All this are just a drop in the ocean of medical negligence that these Govt Health services offer and yet often the doctors who are dragged to the court are the private practitioners who are trying to offer a quality service and rightly ask for payment of it.
Its just a poor state of doctors in india that the country is on the verge of a health breakdown.
Still I say...never give up to those tired doctors who still save many lives without whom the country would have been finished years ago.....
Cheers for Doctors
Tc
See ya soon
1 comment:
How do! I don't think its just India where you see this. In the UK there are all types of Medical Negligence, just to point out one main one: In the UK the NHS runs a postcode lottery system where the area you live in depends on the drugs you will receive.
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