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_______________________________________________The first headline in todayâs Assam Tribune is: Paramedics to treat rural poor in the State. Other newspapers also have carried this news focusing on its significance in some detail. The headline is enough to give us an idea how we are dealing with the matter of health involving the majority of our citizens who cannot afford to live in urban areas where a little better medical care is available.
This is a wide subject, I touch the salient points only. I feel confident to speak about it as I myself have a diploma in preventive medicine and had been a paramedic for about four years working in remote places of Assam. Whenever I go to Assam, if an opportunity arises I try to gather a little information about the present condition of rural health in Assam. There have been vast changes during the last forty years or so, but I'm not sure whether if it is any better.
Chief Minister or for that matter Ministers bearing the portfolio of Health & Medicine as well as other knowledgeable people on the subject certainly know what they are doing. I wonder, though!
Another news reads that the closure of the Assam Medical College is a certainty. The college has 48 professorsâ and 254 nursesâ posts vacant. And I have reason to believe that the Medical Council of India intends derecognising the AMC not on this score alone. The MCI has already derecognised the paramedic colleges of Chattisgorh, Jharkhand and West Bengal.. Why should the Assam Government repeat the same mistake by proposing to open an institution ostensibly for producing quacks? And quacks they would be I can assure you. I myself was one at one time, isnât it?
A few years ago I had discussions with a Joint Director of Health working in upper Assam. He told me besides lack of staff, the dispensaries were run without basic drugs and other requirements. The senior officers no longer went on inspection as there were no funds for travelling.
A Consultant from UK visiting Guwahati told me in private that the NRAs should not participate in building private hospitals in Assam as the money invested in this way was more likely to be squandered. And he was a man, not only capable of helping in that direction but he actually wanted to do something.
About a year back I read a glowing account of the sports complex that was going to be built in time for the National Games of India scheduled to be held at Guwahati in not too distant a future. The author wrote well: impressively and optimistically. Now, the Chief Minister was telling us the other day that the National Games were not to take place in Assam.
What prevents you managing the existing medical colleges and hospitals properly instead of taking up grandiose projects of questionable merit?
I think I know the answer but I want it to hear from you.
Bhuban
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