More On Healthcare Disparities In India.
Published by Vijay June 8th, 2008 in Healthcare, Life in India, Medical blogs, Other BloggersIan Furst, author of the blog Wait Time & Delayed Care has an interesting post on India’s Health Care System.
India’s healthcare system is undergoing dramatic changes that parallel its’ odd emergence as a capital market. Where Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and more recently China have emerged from rural societies into modern economies through industrialization, urbanization then modernization, India has skipped a step. There has been a quick and dramatic split in society with the minority changing from rural to modern and the majority remaining in poverty.
The divide is mirrored in the healthcare sector with a two-tier system characterized by untamed variation in the quality of care. The divide between public and private enterprise is wonderfully illustrated by the fact that cell phone service is more reliable than electricity. Similarly, foreigners come from abroad for surgery in major private centres while rural society languishes.
similar to south africa in that we also have two systems, one good and one much less good.
I like the reading! Very nice site with much detail!
Mark Salinas
Healthy Living Today