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Canada is amongst the richest countries in the world. The Canadians are rich and prosperous. And yes, socialism is on high there.
The video discusses the socialistic medical care system of Canada. The single pair system, according to which, if someone gets ill, he should not worry for money, he should get health care anyhow, because a healthy living is a right.
Private health care system is completely outlawed in Ontario. Only the government can pay the necessary medical health care. Because of being free, some people consider it much more compassionate, caring and humanitarian.
The video shows how drastic and unjust the government monopoly can become.
The needy patient keeps waiting for doctors and practitioners for even getting a MRI, while they need emergency operations. Despite of having lots of money, they cannot get proper medical help at right time many times, because the medical system is controlled by government totally. The video shows the struggle of a brain tumor patient against the socialistic health care system.
The doctors of Canada appeals to US to not to adopt the socialized medical care system, because if they do, then many will face death without getting any help.
Well, that is the talk of rich people of rich countries. Even the richest cannot afford socialism because of its flawed monopoly system.
What about India?
India is one of the weakest countries on the scales of health care.
In 1992 there were 7,300 hospitals all across India. Of this total, nearly 4,000 were owned and managed by central, state, or local governments. Another 2,000, owned and managed by charitable trusts, received partial support from the government, and the remaining 1,300 hospitals, many of which were relatively small facilities, were owned and managed by the private sector..
In 1991 there were approximately ten hospital beds per 10,000 individuals, while there were only 3 medical practitioners (Doctors) per 10,000 people, in 2001 there were 6 medical practitioners per 10,000 individuals.
Obviously, the comparison between Canadian health care system and Indian health care system is impossible.
In India healthcare has been a ignored area by the administration. That is apparent from the fact that only 0.9% of the total GDP was invested in healthcare in 2002
The deficiency of specialist doctors in the rural sector is the main reason for the neglect in healthcare. Even the medical students coming from villages prefer not to go back to their own villages and work there, rather they chooses to work in cities.
Obviously it is their right to chose where to work. Government may try to restrict doctors for working in villages for at least a period of some years before getting license to work freely and that is what government does. But it doesn’t help because mainly people don’t like restrictions. The young doctors avoids going to village and tries to perform duties on papers only. And once they get job or license for individual practice, they stress more on private practice. It cannot be changed, you cannot force a person to go and live in villages. Yet, they must perform their job at duty hours. But many even avoid that, though they take their salaries. It is just like village schooling systems. Some villages have schools and hospitals, but the teachers and doctors seldom reach there.
You might be thinking of the movie Nayak: The Real Hero, in which Anil Kapoor suspends the doctors who doesn’t reach the hospital at duty hours. But that’s not possible in reality, because even if you suspend them, you will have to call them back. There is serious dearth of specialized doctors.
After 1992, government open up education sector, and since then the engineering colleges are increasing at geometric proportion. Every town has two-three engineering colleges. Yet, government kept medical education at its stake. While Madhya Pradesh has 72 engineering colleges recognized by AICTE, Madhya Pradesh has only nine medical colleges recognized by Medical Council of India providing degree of MBBS.
One may think that it is so, to maintain the high standards of medical studies. That may be true. But the thing is, in dearth of specialized medical practitioners, the villagers go to charlatans, the hakims, vaidya’s and ojhas. And that further increases superstitions and disorders, and further diseases and illness.
I would prefer more medical colleges may or may not be of very high standards. At least that will increase the number of available doctors in towns and villages.
In reality, the highly specialized doctors of India often go away to European countries or America as the process of brain drain. And it cannot be stopped. Yet, medical education can be increased to increase number of available medical practitioners to help the people around the towns and villages.
I would prefer same liberalization in medical studies as it has been going on in technical and engineering studies.
“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.”
Ayn Rand
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