Indian healthcare is not really free for all, but "partially free".
From 1950, India began to establish a public health care system, the establishment of a public health care system, the purpose of "so that the poor can afford to see the doctor". Therefore, India also enacted a law that the state would formulate a unified health plan and public hospitals would provide health services.
At that time, the hospital system in India was dominated by public hospitals and there were very few private hospitals. And the quality of health care varied from place to place due to different management in different regions.?
By the 1980s, health care in India began to reach rural areas. Health posts, primary health centers and community health centers gave free medical care to the poor, while the urban public hospital system matured.?
But by the 1990s, public hospitals began to struggle to make ends meet because of too much blind optimism in the early years. This led to the privatization of India's healthcare system, with more and more small private clinics developing, and slowly, large private hospitals came to dominate and public hospitals declined.?
In this trend, the Indian government provided large subsidies to private hospitals for modest reductions in healthcare costs for civilians, and private hospitals became better and better resourced.?
Entering the 21st century, the Indian government began to carry out public **** health service health care through tax financing, the implementation of a part of the medicine free system. At present, the Indian people to see the doctor is not really free, but "part of the medicine free", such as part of the cost of basic medicines, part of the cost of treatment of minor diseases.
The current situation of Indians visiting the doctor
1, public and private hospitals have a big gap in health care?
With the Indian healthcare system entering the privatization phase, the gap between public and private hospitals is getting wider. The most obvious point is that with government encouragement, private hospitals are growing, bringing together top doctors and equipment.?
While this has contributed to the development of private healthcare to some extent, it has become increasingly difficult for the vast majority of the population to visit private hospitals. Compared with public hospitals, private hospitals are more expensive to visit, with 70 percent of medical costs having to be paid out-of-pocket, which is an unaffordable pain for civilians struggling to make ends meet.?
2. Insufficient investment in healthcare?
India invests a lot of money in public **** healthcare every year, which seems to be a good figure in terms of India's overall economic level, but in reality it only accounts for 2% of its GNP.?
In addition, this healthcare spending only gives 20% of the money to public hospitals, with the remaining 80% going to private hospitals. Since the vast majority of Indian people can only go to public hospitals, they do not have access to internationally harmonized healthcare. And with little investment in public hospitals and limited medical resources, coupled with a large population, long queues, lack of doctors and fewer beds have become commonplace...?
Doctors in public hospitals in India work eight hours a day to see more than 100 patients, which is equivalent to each patient can only spend five minutes. Some figures estimate that there are about 63 million diabetics and 2.5 million cancer patients in India, but many go undiagnosed. India's infant mortality rate is three times higher than China's, and only 5% of heart patients who need surgery are lucky enough to receive treatment. There are many more people who don't even know they are sick, let alone talk about treatment.