Must Mission Hospitals die? An alternate exists! – Free Discussion Paper
14 Jul
If you were to do a survey of the 200 odd mission hospitals in India you would think that this massive organization has been asleep for about 15 years, if not more. Most of them are stuck in the past, unable to keep up with the times and very few are relevant to the areas they exist in.
The discussion paper outlines what is wrong with the healthcare system in our country, as well as charts a road map for successful revitalization of mission hospitals in India.
Some of the key changes in healthcare in India the last few decades are:
- Private healthcare has become the predominant healthcare provision in India with about 80% of the sick going to a private practitioner or a private healthcare facility.
- Healthcare has become a profiteering commodity with a high return on investments. This has attracted considerable private investment into healthcare and related products. When investor returns are paramount, social commitment is often ignored.
- Government health system has improved but is patchy. It is better in well governed states. However, increasingly government is privatizing healthcare and is entering into public-private partnerships. Privatization is here to stay and we need to come to terms with this reality.
- Regulatory mechanisms are weak and are unevenly enforced or corrupt. Because of the demand from consumers stronger regulation will be in place over time. NABH and ISO are some the organizations currently implementing standards.
Sum total of all the above changes is that the healthcare system has become curative oriented, inequitable, impoverishing. This has made people around the poverty line and the lower middle class significantly vulnerable to higher morbidity and mortality rates. Healthcare professionals are trapped in a system which does very little to provide them with personal significance and meaning.
Read it online courtsey of Scribd
Alternative Future for Christian Healthcare
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You have assumed that people would take time to download and read this document.
In the busy net-world, nobody other than the promoters might find time to download and read a document of this type. While a research scholar cannot proceed without downloading a paper that he needs, this is not the situation with a person who can easily manage without reading it.
You need to ask who your target readers are and whether they would have time for reading a ScribeD paper.
I very strongly urge that all documents that you want people to read be placed in HTML, with an option to download it in PDF. Software is available for such posting of information on the web.
Dr Johnson,
thank you for the comment, we will post the document in on the blog.
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Also, once a person gets to your blog section, there seems to be no way for him to click a link to go back to the non-blog portion.
Actually the home-page should have a link that says “Blog” and the blog should have a link that says something like “Parent Site”
Dr Johnson, thank you for the advice, but there already is a “our website” link on the sidebar. We will make sure that the link is more prominent in our future design tweaking
It is true that Christian mission hospitals loosing its relevance. Instead of concentrating on Organizational setup, can’t we do something to mobilise the individual christian practitioners to practice according to christian principles in their own situation to re-make the old impact in society?
Dr. Pethuru,
Thats an interesting idea, how do you think one can go about doing that? and what are christian principles?
Also I think that while bringing backs ethics and principles into practice are very important, some things need to change in the organizational set up also, though not at the cost of the real reasons.