Question

What are your thoughts on States being able to regulate their own medical practices? How does it help and how does it hurt patient care?

Answer 1

The health care services always aim to provide the best holistic approach in the grass root level. The available health care services starts from the primary health care to the tertiary hospitals were by the population can access according to their condition.

The medical practice must always aim at providing the deligent care with the best dignity and following the professional ethics. When the state has its own medical practice it has both merits and limitations. When the state starts its medical practice the individualised care of population can be provided at grass root level. Here any state medical practice must be amended to provide the basic care with respect, not to neglect any patient, provide the obstetric care to the women's, treating the acute conditions. These must be followed by the medical practitioners with necessary education and experience. The cost contained care can be expected and the population gets first line of the service.

Moving the ball to the other side if the state medical practice is not developed properly it may hurt the population for instance if the medical practitioner is not that experienced and does the wrong administration of medication, mis interpretation of the investigations, wrong diagnosis which makes the population to increase their morbidity and mortality rate.

Thus the proper policies from the stake holders must be taken up to start the state medical practice on order to make the care patient center with safety environment wereby preventing mortality and morbidity rates.