Health can never be an isolated topic. It needs to be addressed in a holistic/ comprehensive way. The vision should be to ensure a swasthya life for our citizens.
We need to have a long vision to achieve this. But, can plan immediate, short term, medium and long term goals to achieve the same.
Health is not reactive, it needs a proactive approach.
Areas to be looked into are:
Public health
- Existing systems and infrastructure
- There exists both central and State government structures. They need to be looked into to have a connect and deliver.
- One Public Health Foundation in each state has to link these structures and have accountable deliverables
- The rural development and environment ministries, industries and health related departments have to align and contribute to National Health Policy
- Research in public health should be encouraged.
- The policy should have well thought over systems and there is a need for wider adoption of efficient modes of healthcare delivery.
- Strong drug and vaccine policies should be in place
- Bring in incentives for traditional medicines. If this generation loses this valuable, ancient divine science, we will be losing it totally. Good systems in our culture should be preserved and practised. We have to address it through education to reach our long term goals. It should be a part of our public health systems.
Disorders and diseases
- We need registries for common and other disorders to understand the burden and act accordingly.
- Priorities can be fixed accordingly and national institutes need to be given accountable deliverables.
- Each of the centres in every state will contribute to the understanding and overall measures.
- Urban and rural health priorities should be understood well
- With regard to neglected or rare disorders a complete plan can be given. We need a well thought out system to identify, prevent and manage the same.
– Dr BR Lakshmi, Director, Molecular Diagnostics, Counseling, Care & Research Centre (MDCRC)
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