Ahmed Meraj
I am a Public Health Specialist from India working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology. My area of work is academic and research with some involvement in public health administration. I am currently based in Majmaah, Saudi Arabia. I have a total work experience of 11 years in my field.
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we are making great strides in upgrading our healthcare infrastructure and resources to world standards in the
metropolises and other cities, the gap in accessibility to these resources between the urban and rural population within
the country is ever increasing.
Overall we still can only compare our medical successes with other developing and poorly developed countries and are
still far away from the kind of health changes that has been brought about in developed countries. Previous studies
have suggested that majority of the rural deaths which are preventable, are due to communicable, parasitic,
respiratory diseases and infections. Easily accessible basic interventions can help in minimizing the sufferings.
Problem areas that needs to be looked into while comparing rural and urban healthcare services are inequality and
inadequacy; misallocation of public money and inadequate rural public health expenditure; flagrant
commercialization of healthcare and crippling hold of drug manufacturing companies on distribution and pricing of
life saving medicines.
The selective, institutionalized, centralized and top – down method of healthcare service delivery needs to be
dismantled and a decentralized medical service which can be easily accessed by the people is required for the majority
of the rural population. Small changes along with some drastic ones by the people who develop policies are required
like the concept of rural medical colleges, family physicians, integration of Indian System of Medicine Practitioners
into the registered medical practitioner category. Most important is appropriate allocation of funds and budgets to
upgrade/ develop the healthcare infrastructure among the rural population that is actually utilized and shown through
regular audits.
we are making great strides in upgrading our healthcare infrastructure and resources to world standards in the
metropolises and other cities, the gap in accessibility to these resources between the urban and rural population within
the country is ever increasing.
Overall we still can only compare our medical successes with other developing and poorly developed countries and are
still far away from the kind of health changes that has been brought about in developed countries. Previous studies
have suggested that majority of the rural deaths which are preventable, are due to communicable, parasitic,
respiratory diseases and infections. Easily accessible basic interventions can help in minimizing the sufferings.
Problem areas that needs to be looked into while comparing rural and urban healthcare services are inequality and
inadequacy; misallocation of public money and inadequate rural public health expenditure; flagrant
commercialization of healthcare and crippling hold of drug manufacturing companies on distribution and pricing of
life saving medicines.
The selective, institutionalized, centralized and top – down method of healthcare service delivery needs to be
dismantled and a decentralized medical service which can be easily accessed by the people is required for the majority
of the rural population. Small changes along with some drastic ones by the people who develop policies are required
like the concept of rural medical colleges, family physicians, integration of Indian System of Medicine Practitioners
into the registered medical practitioner category. Most important is appropriate allocation of funds and budgets to
upgrade/ develop the healthcare infrastructure among the rural population that is actually utilized and shown through
regular audits.