At
the turn of the last century, three major concerns involving human beings have
come to the limelight which includes a drastic increase in human population
with a concomitant growth in overall life expectancy, global warming and the
rise of terrorism in one or its many forms. Added to this I feel one should not
overlook the fact that extinction of living species (plant and animal) that is taking
place as a result of human encroachment along with parasitic depletion ofnatural resources is in fact depriving the planet of its self-cleansing featurethat it inherits. The balance between the consumer (human) and the provider
(earth) is further affected by a negligible replacement of such sources
(example forests). The situation gets more complex if one analyses the twenty
first century life style of human beings where internet and cellular phones
have become part of everyday life. Such life style is essential to keep pace
with the opportunities that global industrialisation provides to us. In the
prism of such dynamic affairs one must expect new challenges in health care
industry.
Globally,
most of the developing and underdeveloped nations have failed to provide basic
health care facility to its people in the last century. This led to most of the
governments develop policies that encouraged investment from corporates in
health care sector. Financially lucrative health care sector has already been exploited
by the corporates which has given rise to health insurance. One way or the
other, although the rich and powerful in this world have access to health care
system, the serious problem lies how to provide adequate health care facility
for the poor and downtrodden. On one side, I have seen patients seeking
treatment procedures like implant supported prosthesis or aesthetic facial
lifts (even though the treatment is contraindicated in them, they continue to
get such treatment privileges), I must admit that I also have been a witness to
a situation in a government hospital outside the gynecologyoutpatient waiting
area where there were more than three hundred ladies waiting to seek
consultation. Among them I also came to see that many genuine emergency cases
did not get due attention. Scientifically, we don’t even know how many patients
die because they do not get proper health care attention at the right time. Read more.............
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