In order to handle future pandemics, there is a need to create an all India National Health service. Do you agree with this view? Analyse (200 Words)
Refer - The Hindu
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IAS Parliament 3 years
KEY POINTS
· The current surge in COVID-19 infections has exposed problems amounting to near-chaos throughout Indian healthcare.
· The Central and State governments are now coordinating measures within and across their respective jurisdictions.
· For example, the railways are running special trains carrying oxygen supplies, and the military is also involved in supply chains.
· The Supreme Court’s call for a national supply plan has been publicly criticised in the political sphere.
National health service
· In 1946, the civil servant Sir Joseph Bhore submitted to the then government a detailed proposal for a national health service broadly modelled on the British National Health Service or NHS.
· Bhore went further by recommending that preventive and curative medicine be integrated at all levels.
· The result is a mighty achievement in public policy, politics, and the provision of top-class universal healthcare, including training, research, and changing engagement with the public as society changes.
· The service is funded entirely from general taxation.
· The budget includes payment to general practitioners, most of whom remain private providers but are paid by the state for treating NHS patients.
Problems in the NHS
· Among them are largely unintended inequalities in the time and attention given to patients of different social classes.
· Huge and frequent reorganisations imposed by Central government, and often ideologically driven underfunding.
@Pallavi 3 years
Please kindly review.
IAS Parliament 3 years
Try to include about Bhore committee recommendations on National health service. Keep Writing.
