Healthcare in India unsatisfactory

[OhioChick]

Source: Times of India

28 Feb 2008, 1527 hrs IST

NEW DELH: Healthcare in India still lags behind countries like Sri Lanka, China and even Bangladesh on several key parameters despite some improvement in the sector, the Economic Survey for 2007-08 said on Thursday.

"India's position on health parameters compared to even some of its neighbours continues to be unsatisfactory. While India has improved with respect to some important health indicators over the years, it compares poorly with countries like China and Sri Lanka," the survey said.

While India's maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births remains a high 450, it is 45 in China, 58 in Sri Lanka and 320 in Pakistan.

Similarly, infant mortality rate (IMR) in India is 56 per 1,000 live births against 12 in Sri Lanka and 23 in China.



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[jody]

1. Makes sense to me. Many of India's best physicians now practice in the U.S. n/t

[OhioChick]

2. However,

Many employers are now considering sending their employees to India for medical treatment.

[jody]

3. I know, that's paradoxical. n/t

[hunter]

4. HEY! Look over there!

Maternal Mortality Shames Superpower U.S.
By Haider Rizvi

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 13 (IPS) - Despite its enormous wealth and highly advanced technology, the United States lags far behind other industrialised countries -- and even some developing ones -- in providing adequate health care to women during pregnancy and childbirth.

The U.S. ranks 41st in a new analysis of maternal mortality rates in 171 countries released by a group of U.N. public health experts on Friday. The survey shows that even a developing country like South Korea is ahead of the United States.

"Women are unnecessarily dying from pregnancy and childbirth complications because the U.S. is moving in a wrong direction," said Beneva Schulte of Women Deliver, a Washington-based group campaigning for women's reproductive rights and access to public health care.

Based on 2005 estimates, the U.N. analysis suggests that one in 4,800 women in the United States carry a lifetime risk of death from pregnancy. By contrast, among the 10 top-ranked industrialised countries, fewer than one in 16,400 are facing a similar situation.

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39642

[Hekate]

5. The US has a 3rd World health care delivery system. The wealthy get the best in the world...

...as I am sure is the case in India. Americans in HMOs, "managed" care, Blue Cross insurance tied to their jobs -- and the poor -- all have our noses pressed against the window where we can see the "best in the world" that Bush boasts of, but we can't actually get it, or we can only get small doses of it, or only for a limited time.

Hekate