Healthcare and equality


 
 
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Healthcare and equality

Healthcare and equality: Is adequate healthcare available to all?

In India, we face a situation where private services are increasing but public services are not. What is then available to people are mainly private services. These are concentrated in urban areas. As these services are run for profit, the cost of these services is rather high. Medicines are expensive. Many people cannot afford them or have to borrow money when there is an illness in the family. In order to earn more money, these private services encourage practices that are incorrect. At times cheaper methods, though available, are not used. In fact barely 20 per cent of the population can afford all the medicines that they require during an illness. For those who are poor, every illness in the family is a cause of great anxiety and distress. What is worse is that this situation tends to happen again and again. Those who are poor are in the first place undernourished. These families are not eating as much as they should. They are not provided basic necessities like drinking water, adequate housing clean surroundings, etc. and therefore, are more likely to fall ill. The expenses on illness make their situation even worse. Sometimes it is not only the lack of money that prevents people from getting proper medical treatment. For example women’s health concerns are considered to be less important than the health of men in the family.

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Woman usually do not get priority in ferms of _________ care.

Right Option : C
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