1 in 5 Covid recovered patients in the 18 to 34 age group continue to experience debilitating issues months after testing Covid negative. This ratio only goes up as the age of the patient increases. Our health care system simply isn't geared to deal with these issues.
75 lakh Covid cases in India so far, more than a lakh deaths. This means 15~20 lakh so called recovered patients out there, who are unable to go back to work. Many can't even take a bath independently. With over 60,000 new Covid cases a day, our government and private hospitals are barely able to cope with Covid. There is zero investment in post Covid research.
Ten years of topping the list of most polluted places in the world. And yet Delhi/NCR has just over a 100 pulmonologists. Can a hundred doctors take care of the 60,000 (and rising) Covid recovered patients with lung issues just in Delhi? Healthcare systems cannot be run without planning. You can't let the market decide how many pulmonologists and ventilators you're gonna have in the country.
We need tremendous investment in public healthcare. There is simply no other solution. One in every hundred Cubans is a doctor. One in every 200 people in Austria and Denmark are doctors. All three countries have universal publicly funded healthcare.
Economists and bureaucrats can take their PPP health insurance cards and shove them where the sun don't shine. Ayushman Bharat had covered the treatment of only 32,000 Covid patients by September. If it did cover 50cr people as its proponents claim, then it should have paid for the treatment of 29 lakh patients so far. It is operating at only 1% efficiency.
Highest life expectancy in the world - Hong Kong. Universal public healthcare in this mecca of capitalism, not government sponsored treatment in private hospitals like Ayushman Bharat. 17% of all government expenditure in HK is on running the public healthcare system. All countries with high life expectancies have universal public healthcare.
Most governments spend between 6 to 10% of their country's GDP on public healthcare. In India this figure is an abysmal 1.28%, lower than much poorer countries. The US sports a completely privatised healthcare system - the US government spends 16% of US GDP in supporting that system, and gets poorer outcomes than HK spending 6%. Ayushman Bharat copies this failed US model of healthcare. Sigh.
Anyway. Point is, for good health outcomes, we need to pour money into our government hospitals and clinics. Stop the privatisation of health education and pour a ton of money into government medical colleges. Without centralised planning, we cannot prepare for pandemics and shit. And we surely cannot treat post pandemic complications. (Most of the research output on post Covid complications is coming from countries with high life expectancy and public healthcare, like HK, Italy, etc. Yes, I read Covid medical research papers for time pass.)
PS: AB website says 50cr somewhere, 12cr somewhere else. Even with 12cr beneficiaries, they should have paid for the treatment of about 7 lakh Covid patients, but in reality only treated 32,000. Useless. 5% efficacy. Worthless. Find the morons behind this harebrained scheme and whip them. Don't just blame the government. When something this fanciful goes down, you can usually trace the lineage to clowns in the World Bank.
75 lakh Covid cases in India so far, more than a lakh deaths. This means 15~20 lakh so called recovered patients out there, who are unable to go back to work. Many can't even take a bath independently. With over 60,000 new Covid cases a day, our government and private hospitals are barely able to cope with Covid. There is zero investment in post Covid research.
Ten years of topping the list of most polluted places in the world. And yet Delhi/NCR has just over a 100 pulmonologists. Can a hundred doctors take care of the 60,000 (and rising) Covid recovered patients with lung issues just in Delhi? Healthcare systems cannot be run without planning. You can't let the market decide how many pulmonologists and ventilators you're gonna have in the country.
We need tremendous investment in public healthcare. There is simply no other solution. One in every hundred Cubans is a doctor. One in every 200 people in Austria and Denmark are doctors. All three countries have universal publicly funded healthcare.
Economists and bureaucrats can take their PPP health insurance cards and shove them where the sun don't shine. Ayushman Bharat had covered the treatment of only 32,000 Covid patients by September. If it did cover 50cr people as its proponents claim, then it should have paid for the treatment of 29 lakh patients so far. It is operating at only 1% efficiency.
Highest life expectancy in the world - Hong Kong. Universal public healthcare in this mecca of capitalism, not government sponsored treatment in private hospitals like Ayushman Bharat. 17% of all government expenditure in HK is on running the public healthcare system. All countries with high life expectancies have universal public healthcare.
Most governments spend between 6 to 10% of their country's GDP on public healthcare. In India this figure is an abysmal 1.28%, lower than much poorer countries. The US sports a completely privatised healthcare system - the US government spends 16% of US GDP in supporting that system, and gets poorer outcomes than HK spending 6%. Ayushman Bharat copies this failed US model of healthcare. Sigh.
Anyway. Point is, for good health outcomes, we need to pour money into our government hospitals and clinics. Stop the privatisation of health education and pour a ton of money into government medical colleges. Without centralised planning, we cannot prepare for pandemics and shit. And we surely cannot treat post pandemic complications. (Most of the research output on post Covid complications is coming from countries with high life expectancy and public healthcare, like HK, Italy, etc. Yes, I read Covid medical research papers for time pass.)
PS: AB website says 50cr somewhere, 12cr somewhere else. Even with 12cr beneficiaries, they should have paid for the treatment of about 7 lakh Covid patients, but in reality only treated 32,000. Useless. 5% efficacy. Worthless. Find the morons behind this harebrained scheme and whip them. Don't just blame the government. When something this fanciful goes down, you can usually trace the lineage to clowns in the World Bank.