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| 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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