Need For Mother and Child Hospitals in India



May God bless this sweet Child and his mother
While much of the population in India is still poor and cannot afford private medical care, free government services are hugely limited and overburdened. The most tragic is the huge number of child deaths that are taking place in such hospitals due to inadequate care and it is here the need for improvement most urgent.

What is needed now is  new large modern government run Mother and child hospitals to take care of mothers from the beginning of pregnancies as well as children up to the age of five. To begin with one such hospital may be set up in each district across India at a place the population density is highest in the district. Each district may have special departments peculiar to their area such as North Central provinces for encephalitis and meningitis or the western tribal parts for malnutrition. Each district mother and child hospital may also run extension centers and mobile care vans across the district but under its full administrative control.

Such hospitals must not take in any adult patients or mothers that do not have a child less than six years old or are not child bearing so as to cater to this segment of the population exclusively in a child and mother friendly manner. It goes without saying all of the nursing and most of the other staff would be women in such hospitals although there may be some male pediatricians and other male staff such as administrative staff, ambulance drivers, security guards etc.

These hospitals must be child friendly and painted like a bright nursery school with play gardens for children. India can easily afford this service and it would go a long way in caring for its children as well as reducing its huge infant mortality rate.



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