Medical Education in India . . . A clarion call for Family Medicine as Specialty

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Many people, now days, are completely aware of the recent situation regarding the health care of any common people. India may have fostered in a lot of fields but in the field of heath care the situation is very much gruesome and it is known by most of the people. Any average earning person who is willing to get his or her health check up has to pay a large amount before getting the check up done. It has almost become impossible to avail any health care services with the recent situations.

The mortality rate of infant as well as maternal has increased considerably and in various parts of the country and with the increase in the number of patients there are no sufficient doctors to take care of which result in the degradation of the health care. In various other countries there are various kinds of facilities for the patients like in some countries the nurses that are present in the hospitals do the primary check up of the patients and if within the primary check up the problem is resolved then there is no need for the patient to visit the doctor and if it is not resolved then the patient has to visit the doctor. In this way most of the patients are cured during the primary check up itself and avoid spending some large amount by going to the doctors.

In India, the condition has worsened as with the increase in population, the number of health care that are here remains the same and moreover the process of the checkups is not modernized which prevents the quick check up process. If a patient wants to get checked up by a doctor then he or she has to wait in long queues and bring a token and then wait for the doctor to arrive and after his or her number comes the patient is allowed to visit the doctor. The whole process takes long hours by which time the health might have been deteriorated. Here the nurses are also not capable enough to check the patients in the initial stage which makes the process more tiring.

Another major disadvantage for the increase in the mortality rates is the lack of some good surgeons in the country or some good specialists. Whenever a person gets a cardiac arrest or needs a brain surgery in a small city then he or she finds that there is no privilege of a surgeon so the patient has to travel to far off places to get the surgery done by the person or has to wait for the doctor to arrive by which time the patient might have died. All these reasons are the main aspects that contribute to the increase in the death rates of the country. To avoid all these some steps must be taken by the government and make some changes in the heath care procedures so that the people will not face any kind of issues and have a good life.