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August 10, 2022

A National Tribal Health Mission can be the path to a peaceful health revolution tribal people in India. Elaborate (200 Words)

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IAS Parliament 2 years

KEY POINTS

·        Few people are aware that nearly 11 crore tribal people (enumerated as Scheduled Tribes (ST) in the Census of India (2011) live in India.

·        They constitute 8.6% of India’s population, the second largest number of tribal people in any country in the world.

·        Tribal people heavily depend on government-run public health care institutions, such as primary health centres and hospitals, but there is a 27% to 40% deficit in the number of such facilities, and 33% to 84% deficit in medical doctors in tribal areas.

·        National Tribal Health Action Plan with a goal to bring the status of health and healthcare at par with the respective State averages in the next 10 years.

·        Committee suggested nearly 80 measures to address the 10 priority health problems, the health care gap, the human resource gap and the governance problems.

·        Committee suggested allocation of additional money so that the per capita government health expenditure on tribal people becomes equal to the stated goal of the National Health Policy (2017), i.e. 2.5% of the per capita GDP.

·        If actualised, the Tribal Health Mission can be the path to a peaceful health revolution for the 11 crore tribal people. India needs to demonstrate to them that democracy offers a caring solution to their wounds.

K. V. A 2 years

Kindly review

IAS Parliament 2 years

Good attempt. Keep Writing.

TK Padhan 2 years

Kindly pls review sir 

IAS Parliament 2 years

Good attempt. Keep Writing.

Aravind R 2 years

Kindly review this mam/sir

IAS Parliament 2 years

Good attempt. Keep Writing.

Varon 2 years

Kindly review 

IAS Parliament 2 years

Try to bring coherence in the answer and avoid listing out points. Keep Writing.

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