Why Biju
Swasthya Yojana will destroy Govt.
health system in Odisha and lead to corporatization
of Health System in the state .
Dear friends
Today ( 30.8.18), Sambad has
covered a news that Capital Hospital located
in the heart of Bhubaneswar, capital city of Odisha, around 2 kms away from
residence of Chief Minister has shortage of 104 staff Nurse against required strength
of the hospital. Similarly few months back, information obtained under
RTI from Health and Family Welfare Dept. has exposed disastrous condition of Govt. hospitals due to 50% of post of doctors ( specialists, Professors and Assistants
professors ) lying vacant in the state. The new medical college and hospitals in
different districts like Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bolangir and Koraput are seen
shortage of teaching and non-teaching staff which has resulted in damaging
academic atmosphere in these institutions. Mass media also continues to highlight
defunct and damaging condition of costly medical instruments worth crores of
rupees due to vacancy of technical staff
in these medicals to handle it. Lack of
infrastructure , transport system,
doctors, para-medical staff has deprived
lakhs of poor people to get
basic health services in coastal odisha nearer
to urban areas as well as remote pockets of the state .
Without taking any steps to
solve these problems, why the State
Govt. has launched this
Biju Swastya Yojana , a scheme
for assuring health coverage of Rs. 5 lakh
to each family and extra Rs. 2
lakh coverage for women in a year. There are few hidden objectives behind
declaring this scheme which
are as follows.
A. It
will act
as safety valve to save the
Government from public criticism of deteriorating health system of
the state and failure of the Govt. to provide health services to the people , as it assures financial support to the poor family to get
treatment free of cost without paying a single pie from his or her pockets. The people will get
relax and It will also give political mileage to BJD Govt.
B. In
view of denial of health services in Primary Health Centres, Community Health
Centres and District Hospitals due to
the reasons stated above, the people with health card having assurance of health coverage free of cost, will
go to private hospital to
get treatment which will comparatively better than
Govt. hospitals. The public fund i.e., Govt. fund will directly flow to
private business house running private hospitals through this scheme. The private hospitals will boom. The existing loot, manipulation and misappropriation of fund in RSBY Card and Biju Krushak Kalyan Yojana ( BKKY )
by private hospitals will
continue in new scheme and new form.
The State exchequer will no
doubt will continue to suffer.
C. The
people will get satisfied
to some extent getting better treatment in private
hospitals. It may help the ruling
party strengthen vote bank. But in the
long-run , it will damage and destroy
age-old Govt. hospitals. Finally
Govt. health delivery system
will gradually collapse. More dependency of the people
on private hospitals will increase . It
will strengthen exploitation
of private hospitals in name of better health facility.
The people who are
supporting Biju Swastya Yojana and being swayed
away by Nabin Patnaik propaganda
must understand the
corporate- design motive of this
Govt. to destroy our Govt. health system and benefitting corporate
house.
Pradip Pradhan , RTI
Activist
M-9937843482
Date-30.8.18
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