Document Actions
Current health scenario in rural India
The health status of India's rural population is a cause for concern, especially when health care is increasingly provided by private hospitals, and the spending on health is increasingly beyond the reach of rural poor.
A paradigm shift from the current 'biomedical model' to a 'socio-cultural model', which should bridge the gaps and improve quality of rural life, is the current need. A revised National Health Policy addressing the prevailing inequalities, and working towards promoting a long-term perspective plan, mainly for rural health, is imperative. We have the special consent of UNICEF (Hyderabad) to use their interactive multi lingual CD on maternal health, Sisu Samrakshak (Child Protector). It provides essential information on different stages in the life of a child beginning with pregnancy to adolescence.
www.indg.in will aim to provide a platform for providing health related services to people such as information on PHCs, special schemes related to rural health and sanitation and ultimately link the health providers with rural communities in the best way possible.
