Rural health is one of vital elements of rural life. India being a nation of villages requires an intensive approach toward rural health. Nearly 75% of health infrastructure and other health resources are concentrated in urban areas. Even if several government programs for growth of rural healthcare have been initiated, the procedural delay in implementation leads to its ineffectiveness. Volunteering Surya’s Heath Organization challenges rural health system and possible strategies taken to overcoming health issues.
Healthcare is the right of every individual, but lack of proper infrastructure, inadequate and expensive medical facilities, under qualified medical practitioners, inaccessible medical assistance have contributed towards the deplorable health care condition of the 600million rural population in India. Volunteering the screening process at primary health care to the underprivileged rural and urban slum population residing in the remotest villages and urban slums of Telangana is a great privilege to start.
While India has made significant strides in terms of improving its health indicators- demographic, infrastructural and epidemiological, the country continues to grapple with low growth rate of health insurance in rural areas. As a team, we provide increasing awareness about health insurance, educate rural people on the need of health insurance and encourage insurance companies to get involved into wellness activities, and spreading awareness on better sanitation, precautions taken in case of any ailments or diseases. Overall, it comes to “Prevention is better than Cure”.
Healthcare in India is not equal due to the high costs of services. Only one third of population is insured and many wait until they are in desperate need to seek out services. We, Volunteers support the public health needs of local communities for children and families. With screening facilities, youth health projects, adult educational programmes will have long term impacts on the health, safety, and educational outcomes of young students and future generations.
Promotion of rural heath has become a major agenda of policy makers. Health can be more properly viewed as an index of human adaptation to a micro ecological niche. From this point of view, health management can mean the full visualisation of the minimal requirements of clinical-curative inputs in health planning and management. We as a team of Surya’s health Organization are working together, to improve the health quality of rural India.
The six decades of Indian independence have witnessed too many plans, papers and proposals giving top priority to the health issues in India. Even the WHO slogans ‘Health for All’, ‘Millennium Development Goals’ and more recently ‘ Universal health care’ have not translated into meaningful actions on ground. The accessibility of healthcare as well as utilisation of available healthcare facilities, especially in rural areas, continue to be poor in India.
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Although the number of health facilities in rural areas of India have increased during decade, convincing doctors to work in them remains a challenge. Thus, supporting this Organization helps the rural population benefit from specialist doctors from various localities visiting them, diagnose the conditions and get treatment.
Public Health in India exhibits a peculiar trend. There is a serious gap in health infrastructure on the one hand and a double burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases on the other. As an alternative to consolidating resources on curative services a very effective alternative strategy would be preventive healthcare.
