Saturday, November 05, 2005

carrot and the donkey

India which is widely regarded as having a surplus of doctors and a major supplier of doctors and nurses to various rich foreign countries has vacancy rates in health services ranging from 30% to 90 % depending on which areas are surveyed.
In a country suffering from over population and unemployment this fact is unexplainable to me.

Provision of free health services is political and emotional one.
Politicians dare not suggest to the public that government can not provide adequate health services with out some payment from the public.
Just like free power free health is a carrot at the end of the stick
The stick is very long and the donkey will never get the carrot.

Till we realise this and bring changes in the way public health services are rendered in india we can not eradicte major haelth problems of the public and progress economically.