Proposals

Proposals

1. One National autonomous health authority will be established for the whole country. It will be responsible for coordination with different services providers and for ensuring their public accountability.
   
2. For Each district in the country – a community health fund shall be established by community financial contribution. The community health centres and the district hopsitals will be suitably strengthened.
   
3. For each village panchayat – one or more community health animators –and /or ASHA worker, anaganawadi worker and ANM will be fully train fro delivery of primary health and medical care
   
4. At the level of each electoral ward in a gram panchayat – a community health committee will be set up and a community chest of drug shall be provided, This will enable the self-management of routine ailments by the community close to their habitation and settlement.
   
5. The currently extant artificial division and boundaries between different systems of medicines will be done away with – e,g, allopathy – ayurved –unani – homeopathy and yoga and naturopathy. At each level of care, emphasis will be on coordinates action amongst the practitioners of different systems of medicine on the ground level.
   
6. The current tendencies of medical sciences, technology and knowledge systems to become instruments of the corporate medical industrial complex /pharma industry will be effectively controlled and prevented. The programs of vaccination, treatment of HIV/AIDS and that of Hepatitis B and C etc. will be suitably reviewed and amended. Similarly the Ayushman -2 scheme will be totally overhauled.
   
7. For the promotion of health, emphasis will be made on public education for health. This will be based on the proper coorination and integration of attiude of positive health on the one hand and – including individual counselling, family therapy, nutrition, life style and primary medical treatment on the other hand. All decisions regarding the medical treatment of the patient shall be taken with his participation in decision making and giving due space to his choice and preferences.