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Preventive healthcare need of the hour: Delhi CM New Delhi: Making a plea for preventive healthcare, Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit on Monday told delegates attending the Third India Healthcare Summit that the commonman was still largely ignorant about health-related issues, and programs available to reduce their miseries. Speaking about her experiences with "Stree Shakti" camps organized by her Government over the last three years, Dikshit said that most people in Delhi who rush to hospitals "are not suffering from lifestyle diseases, but from simple ailments because they are unaware of the basic healthcare issues". "I have noticed that most of these people particularly the women are suffering from malnutrition which leads to other diseases and complications.I know that Delhi is to becoming the medical hub of the country but these are the people who worry us," she told the healthcare summit. Dikshit said that besides women, she was also concerned about the healthcare of children because unless" we can ensure good preventive healthcare for children we cannot hope to have smaller families because parents are not sure of the survival of their infants." Dikshit also called on CII which organised the healthcare summit to attach high priority or training for healthcare related services through ITIs etc. Another aspect where she wanted the healthcare summit to focus was the training of technicians in hospitals in Delhi. "We have good doctors and good machines but the technicians manning these machines are not up to the mark and that is one of the reasons why there is so much of over crowding in hospitals." She hoped that the Indian healthcare summit would come up with a roadmap and give guidelines for better health education and preventive healthcare for the Indian people. Minimum Healthcare Dr. Harpal Singh, Chairman of the Conference, said:"It is true that India has taken great strides in the field of medical excellence but a large part of the population is not getting access to the minimum healthcare. One of the main point of discussion at the conference is how to integrate the Indian healthcare scenario with the global scenario and developments." Another vital part of the two-day session, he said, would focus on financing the healthcare requirements of the country as the Government investment in this sector was very limited and there was need for Govt. private sector participation. Dr. Naresh Trehan, the Chairman of the CII National Committee on Healthcare, assured the Chief Minister that they would undertake a statewide health education programme for school children in and around Delhi in collaboration with the Education Department. Sunita Reddy, co- Chairperson of the CII National Committee on Healthcare stressed the importance of a uniform price band if India had to become the healthcare destination of the world as was being envisaged. She emphasized that it was necessary that healthcare be given infrastructure status , if it was to compete with the rest of the world. She said that there was an urgent need for public and private sector co operation if healthcare had to reach the common man. |
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