Poverty and Health: Major challenges for India
Since Indian independence, the issue of poverty and health within the country has remained a prevalent concern. Poverty and health are the two sides of the same coin.
SINCE THE Indian independence, the issue of poverty and health within the country has remained a prevalent concern. Poverty and health are the two sides of the same coin. It has been noticed that more than 22% of the entire rural population and 15% of the urban population of India lives in difficult physical and financial predicament. No doubt, the union government has implemented or planned several poverty eradiction programs in the country, but the results are still to come. It is often noticed that the negligencies and corruption of the concerned implementing agencies in different states are the major cause of the failure of such programs. The poor peasants are always found to be deprived of the government aid provided for the development of agriculture. Those, who benifit from this scheme are the village level political leaders or the officers of the concerned department. Until and unless, the state governments implement development projects in letter and spirit, poverty cannot be eradicated from the country. On the other hand, the urban povery is due to the growing population. A large number of rural families migrate to cities or towns in search of jobs. Those jobless families has raised the povery percentage in the cities. The poverty is one of the factor which also gave rise to health related problems in both urban and rural population. The mushroom growth of the population, especially the slum dwellers primarily suffers from Tuberculosis, Malaria and some water borne diseases. The major cause of these diseases is unhygenic environment. The slums lack water, sanitation facility that leads to the growth of some dreadful diseases among the dwellers. The government has setup number of medical facility centres for the poor people. The government should implement some new schemes for the slum dwellers. Some cleanliness awareness programme should be launched to teach them basic health knowledge. Some of the diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera transmit due to unhygenic atmosphere. The people always counts pollution,being the major cause of different diseases in the cities. But, why the rural Indians are suffering from different diseases? In rural India, the major cause of health related problems are poverty and lack of education. Most of the villagers still believe in Tantra- Mantra to cure a disease. As a result the mortality rates have increased in some of the remote villages. Poverty creates ill health because it forces people to live in environments that make them sick, without decent shelter, clean water or adequate sanitation. It is doubtless to mention that the government has already setup number of Primary Health Centres in almost every villages of our country. But how many health workers sincerely serve the rural patients ? In most places, the health workers remain absent from their duties for several days. Most of the Indian villages do not have smooth communication and transportation with the nearby towns or cities. This problem is largely affecting the rural people who fail to move to nearby towns to get better treatment. The commuication and lack of transport facilities are largely noticed in the north eastern part of India.There are still some remote villages in Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland which do not have any road,connected with nearby towns. For this the patients lose their life without getting any modern treatment. There are many drawbacks for which the government policies are still unsuccessful, especially related with health issues. Thus, the povery and health problems of our country cannot be eradicated without our own efforts. To get fruitful results of the health policies, the government should also give importance in improving the communication and transportation system between the villages and towns. Moreover, every state government should make compulsory posting of Health educators and health workers in each and every Indian village.
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The paragraph shows the poverty still surviving in india after so many years of independence
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The moot point here is why poverty prevails even after 6 decades of independence. All other points discussed by writer are off shoots of poverty only. To me first and foremost reason is type of development, socialist pattern, which killed individual ingenuity and initiative. Equally important is outdated agriculture policy which resulted 80% of population contributing only 20% of GDP. In affluent countries it is reverse of our figure. Next important reason is loot and plunders of approximately Rs. 180000 crores by leaders and siphoning it off to safe heavens dotted world wide. This amount is many times mores attributed to British during their 200 years rule. All Indians from newly born to senior most were victims of this loot to 177000, figure good enough to wipe of poverty fron country.
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