Health
Health
The curious paradox of Indian health is that on the one hand, due to conditions of extreme poverty and lack of healthcare, drinking water and sanitation, the poor suffer from acute malnutrition, infant mortality and millions die from disease. At the same time, India’s middle class are developing lifestyle diseases like obesity, diabetes and heart trouble at an alarming rate. This is the twin challenge India faces in providing good quality healthcare - addressing the health challenges of a poor country, as well as those of an increasingly industrialised one.
November 17th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Health is the primary concern of all Indians and it is rightly so in today’s fast paced technological and Business world. Lack of healthcare facilities is an alarming issue and calls for urgent attention from Healthcare Managers and Administrators. It also means that alongwith developing the business and commercial world, there is a need for improving the Health and Hospitality sectors. Ministers and Corporate Managers must take up this issue and promote healthy activities such as Sports and Intellectual Games among young people such as Students, Professionals, Businessmen and Sportsmen.
Santosh S
Navi Mumbai, India
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Traditionally, India has chosen the simple adage of Prevention over cure. All the “elders” in my family died of old age and never been to the doctors for anything more severe than toothache (that too after they hit their 70’s). Sadly, the deterioration of our lands and waters owing to “imported” technology of harsh chemicals has caused malnutrition among our poor and ill health among the “richer” who eat all the ‘wrong” foods. Simple diets of the “past” are scorned. It is not uncommon for a younger person who is more conscious of jaggery being healthier than white sugar who be frowned upon by her in law. As I write this, the word “jaggery” is underlined in red which means that this text editor does not recognize this valid english word for a very Indian staple. This is how obvious the divide is between the “rich” and the “poor” India.
Personally, I appreciate you as a good business man who knows your IT stuff very well and you are indeed a great asset to our country. But that percentage that you are trying to generalize as “all” of India is a very small sliver of the population. Most of your “ideas” on many of these subjects are from ‘western” perspectives of how issues have to be “identified” and resolved. There is no “Indian” originality in them. Please go on a Pad yatra like Gandhi did- live under a $1 a day for 6 months, walking in the hinterland and THEN write this book. You will write a VERY different book- for one, you will NOT talk like all the ‘western” economists about “8%” growth- instead you will connect with Her soil, her abundance, her spirit of resilience that have withstood cultural, religious and ideological onslaughts over centuries and still has a celebrative spirit that is uncrushable.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Dear Mr. Nandan
I have shared this with Mr. Narayan Murthy also few years back and he responded that he was travelling and get back to me later but somehow the communication got snapped after that.
I am having an Architechture ready for Integrated Hospital Management System and this Unique Identrity project has already been included in that! In USA now it’s the hottest topic and Fed has planned a $10 trillion dollar project over next 10 years. My architecture is much more inclusive and will not cost even 1/50th of the costs!
The idea is around to create a web+intranet based Patient + Hospital + Pharmacy + Insurance + Administration + Government this is a huge huge project and takes care of so many issues that we have in India like..
1) Creating Unique IDs for each citizen
Helping track of illegal activites
2) Having their Medical information and history stored online
3) Eliminataing the spurious drugs supply completely
4) Eliminating the medical insurance fraud
5) Enabling Remote access to medical services
6) Generating numberous reports helping medical research and development
7) An out of the world service inofrastructure putting India on the forefront of medical technology
This can’t be done a single company unless a solid government support is available and you have that. If you can think about this one will help India and the mankind tremendously.
Thank you
Vikas Aditya