80% First Visits In Rural India Are To Unqualified Doctors: Abhijit Banerjee

[@tusharroy2425]

That is what the honorable Nobel laureate Dr. Abhijit Bandyopadhyay has said is the poverty in the health care system in our rural India. I think that most of the people agree with him. Governments should much more focus on the health department. Rural areas 're suffering from the qualified doctors, and it is not merely the pitiful predicament of the rural areas in India, but in urban regions of our country also are facing the crux of lack of proper faculty in the hospitals or health centers. I urge both the State and Central Govt. to think on it instead of launching or continuing some unnecessary schemes in respect of present reality which devour prodigious amount of money. And I would like to confer thankful grace to NDTV for arranging the debate on such relevant issue.

[@cultwatch2580]

Bhaisahab sahi kaha Bengali doctors are not even went to medical college!

[@bm8292]

The long term solution is to get the Aryuvedic doctors to practice in rural India. The health problems of rural areas are different and simple compared to urban India. Their problems are basic; fever, cough, poisoning, snake bite, fracture, etc. The government focus is on western medicine and that's the problem.

[@rappergaming2004]

Aurveda is fasict , communal , andhbishwas liberandus said that to me .

[@alexdas9575]

in the case of a rural setup these Jugad Doctors are the front line workers too, common people know that he or she is there for sure in his office to provide some kind of help

[@kalgandikota7752]

Just because we don't have skilled medical professionals in villages, we cannot justify what the jugads are doing in villages. Anyone keeping a medical record of how many are suffering or dying in their hands?

[@alexdas9575]

Well, a typical Doctor spends about seven to eight years, studying with a dream of making a fortune in terms of money. therefore will definitely would not like to work in a rural setup, it's well known that system is broken. Instead of making fun of Jugad Doctors, why not train them as front-line workers and pay them based on the number of patients they attend. since they are from rural areas, they would live in the rural set up and serve the local communities. if you post someone at a zonal center and have them posted at a remote location, you would have same issues that are similar to a fully trained Doctor not show up at work, but in the case of a nurse they would show up 50% or the time.

[@kalgandikota7752]

Alex, Fully-trained doctor not show up? When someone takes up an employment, they either perform or find an employment elsewhere. We need better auditing systems and online attendance systems for doctors deployed in rural areas. Will you agree if a soldier doesn’t patrol the borders? Soldiers are saving lives at the expending their own lives and doctors not doing the same at least expending their own comforts is a total disgrace to their profession and their oath. One side aspirants are committing suicides facing the NEET entrance exams to become doctors and when someone is honored with their medical degree, they better put their skills into practice. In my view, the best approach to this problem is by increasing the number of graduate and post-graduate universities of Medical Sciences. Right now there are only 23 AIIMs functional or partly-functional. For a nation with more than 135 crore people, how are just 23 AIIMs justifiable? As per 2021 QS World University Rankings for medicine, * there are 121 world ranked medical universities in USA with a population of just 33 crores * there are 28 world ranked medical universities in China with a population comparable to India * there are just 9 world ranked medical universities in India Therefore, there is a need to increase the number of universities in India proportional to the population of India instead of depending on reservation policies or foreign studies. Then the talented kids get their share of seats and those from weaker sections (OBCs, EWS, SC/ST etc.) will also have their seats. Right now, in many states of India, oddly there are no world-class medical institutions worthy enough to serve several politicians and celebrities. That’s why those politicians and celebrities are either going to foreign countries or importing doctors with foreign education. This is a shameful situation and must be changed as soon as possible by having a number of world-class medical universities in all smart cities and all states of India. Ever wonder how such small countries like Taiwan, Korea, Japan or Singapore doing such wonders in technologies and India or Pakistan with their vast populations cannot do the same even with so called literacy and great religions. South Asian Governments only concentrated on basic literacy for so long and have not been paying as much attention to the tertiary studies at Universities of sciences, technologies, engineering, medicine etc. Due to inadequate number of universities with world standards, the number of South Asian startups, innovation and patent filings are way too less compared to East Asia let alone Europe or Nations of European Settlers. According to 2021 US News report of Best Global Universities Rankings, here is how South Asia compares to East Asia with respect to the number of world ranked universities in Sciences, Technologies, Engineering, Mathematics, Medical sciences etc. India(59)+Pakistan(13)+Sri Lanka(1)+BanglaDesh(1)+Afghanistan(0)+Nepal(0) = 74 China(203)+Japan(85)+S. Korea(44)+Taiwan(23)+Thailand(11)+Vietnam(4)= 370 Now who are we kidding saying India is ‘Vishwaguru’ straddled by nations with no regards for a secular democracy? Innovation, Patents and startups appear to be directly proportional to the number of universities with world standard education in Sciences, technologies, engineering, mathematics, medical sciences, management etc. Therefore, we must all make everyone understand what is meant by A KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON GLOBALIZATION. Same amount of metals in kitchen utensils gives less profit than a car or a smartphone. The difference is knowledge used to make a car, a micro-chip or a smartphone or other such high-tech product. The same weight of potatoes gives less profit than same weight of a bag of delicious chips. That’s the power of KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY. When India rises to become a Knowledge-based economy, then may be doctors’ lifestyle living in villages and sub-urban areas is similar to those in cities. Corona virus will go away with the vaccines, however the biggest epidemic in India are cognitive distortions, logical fallacies and mental diseases. Therefore, there is a need to increase the number of graduate and post-graduate degrees in Psychology also at all relevant Universities also. We all are same people ripped apart by various discriminatory ideologies like caste, religion, language, race, tribe, sect, region, last name, gender (women, including LGBT), dress habits, food habits(veg, non-veg, beef, pork etc.) etc. Entire nation has become one gigantic dysfunctional family. Only when the mental health is improved then only people will understand that the knowledge-based economy and development are not possible without cohesive, constructive and sustainable mind-set of all. Only when all Intellectuals (of all discriminatory ideologies and all genders) align towards the same ultimate goal of India’s Development ONLY then there will be peace, progress, prosperity and happiness in India(Asia or at least South Asia). In order to have critical mass of intellectuals in any city or state, if there is one fundamental disruption that must happen in India even now then that is drastically increasing the number of universities in India and also the quality of research based education in those universities. If 10 lakhs of engineers and doctors graduating are not enough to progress the nation satisfactorily, then that number must be doubled to 20 lakhs as soon as possible by doubling the number of IITs, IIMs, AIIMs and other multi-disciplinary universities in India to create a glut of doctors and engineers so that even USA or other developed nations cannot absorb all that talent. For those who can’t pursue post-graduate studies at Universities, there must be vocational colleges & trade schools teaching them 21st century job skills so they either provide their services or start their own trades. All youth in the nation must be galvanized/baptized by the tertiary education and the apprenticeship programs so they all understand what is meant by A KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON GLOBALIZATION whether they are able to have sustainable careers on par with their education or not. We must all ask which is better for a nation, unemployed-uneducated or unemployed-educated youth? Unemployed post-graduate youth are the least worry to a nation and majority will ultimately strive to be entrepreneurs, start non-profits, join civil services, armed forces, become politicians, go to foreign countries etc., thus ensuring India will also develop in Fourth Industrial Revolution on par with at least China if not USA. Universities are also part of infrastructure of a nation besides drainages, toilets, roads, air-ports, railways, internet & phones etc. Stadiums, railroads, industries and drainages are fully functional right from the day they are inaugurated. However, universities are like nurseries of orchard saplings. When seeds (students) go to the nurseries (Universities), they may all sprout. And just as seeds sprout and grow to yield food with lots of fertilizers and pesticides, the youth sprouted must grow with all the nutrition and vaccinations to yield tangible results of the development for nation. The richest farmer (corporation of the foreign developed country) will pay lots of price for the saplings because he is in a hurry to get them into his farm (foreign developed nation). Once he’s done taking as many as he could plant, the rest of saplings with degrees are left-overs and must struggle willingly in the environments where they get planted. Thus, similar to world-class products being produced by world-class high-tech machinery, world-class intellectuals get created due to world-class universities. And when there are many of them proportional to the population of India, definitely India will emerge as a superpower and a guide for their allies similar to how USA is with respect to NATO and China is with respect to ASEAN. Governments at the center and states must increase the number of universities so that everyone of all castes and religions have highest degrees in their hands. If Indian Governments do not have funds to establish standalone universities with departments of medical sciences, then similar to PLI scheme, Indian Governments may take share in private universities. Not only privatization of distressed Indian public sector enterprises, Indian Government must also come up with incentives and policy relaxations for private sector to establish universities with world standards like Harward, Stanford and other such Ivy League universities. In summary, we cannot get any medical staff to perform well in a village where they feel isolated. We must increase overall happiness of the nation by improving standard-of-living for all by the power of sciences and technologies. Also, we must increase supply of professionals with medical degrees and also use latest technologies so that at least some of them choose to live in villages or at least commute to nearest villages.

[@hambaexploringownnatureand6571]

Actually, these jugars are helping the mass according to their knowledge. Without them it will be horrible situation.

[@ramblerblahblah1806]

A debate on health and hygiene, but what's Amitabh doing 🤔

[@cultwatch2580]

Education minister hamara nakli degree wali thi and even hamara pm bhi Harvard educated hai😄

[@shimankumaheshwari6904]

Bengali doctors, RMP, Quacks etc

[@delhiboys2906]

😍😍😍

[@vivekdubey4363]

That is why Banerjee ran to the comforts of US of A. 🤣

[@bikramjitroy6155]

Almost we all will do. Won't we?!

[@vivekdubey4363]

@@bikramjitroy6155👎 Sorry. No way. 😁

[@Chaitanya_44]

@@vivekdubey4363 don't you want to live in comfort.

[@tusharroy2425]

That is what the honorable Nobel laureate Dr. Abhijit Bandyopadhyay has said is the poverty in the health care system in our rural India. I think that most of the people agree with him. Governments should much more focus on the health department. Rural areas 're suffering from the qualified doctors, and it is not merely the pitiful predicament of the rural areas in India, but in urban regions of our country also are facing the crux of lack of proper faculty in the hospitals or health centers. I urge both the State and Central Govt. to think on it instead of launching or continuing some unnecessary schemes in respect of present reality which devour prodigious amount of money. And I would like to confer thankful grace to NDTV for arranging the debate on such relevant issue.