Dr. Ramakrishna Prasad  President

AFPI Karnataka

President's Message

Healthcare in India which used to run on a strong and steady family practice has drifted to one based on specialist and super-specialist service over the past few decades. 50 years ago, every family, area or village had a family doctor who was a friend, philosopher, protector and guide to the community! In the current era every young doctor wants to become an “organ specialist” and every patient wants to be treated by the “famous specialist” in that field for even the mildest symptoms like headache, abdomen pain, diabetes etc. This system-based care has eventually made healthcare unaffordable for the poor and middle class. The number of new five star hospitals and labs springing up in every specialty; be it diabetes, oncology (cancer care), gastroenterology, cardiology and varied fields- has outnumbered the humble general hospitals.  In spite of the availability of the best technologies, trust and personalized care is increasingly noted to be missing in the absence of well-trained and trusted family physicians. Additionally, increasing reports of violence against doctors are symptomatic of the erosion of societal trust in the doctor-patient relationship and increasing fragmentation of care due an imbalanced emphasis on tertiary/specialty care without due attention to primary care and health equity. As traditional family doctors disappear from society, people have often a compulsion to visit large crowded public hospitals or unaffordable corporate/private hospitals for their basic medical needs. With health care costs rapidly spiraling up, there has been growing discomfort among people of India ……  cont’d

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