Question

What do you think of emergency and preventative care for everyone. Diagnostic and elective procedures/surgeries are out of pocket?

Answer 1

Emergency Care: is provided for patients who are in serious condition requiring prompt treatment. It has to be given in order to save the life of the patient in case of life threatening situations.It includes treating the patient with invasive procedures, Ventilation of lungs, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Intense Care Unit monitoring,Inotrophs,emergency medicines, blood transfusion, Intravenous therapy.

Preventive care: It plays an important part in prevention of disease ,restoration of health and rehabilitation of the patient.It includes three types.

They are

1. Primary Prevention: Here the prevention of disease is done through health education. Even before the disease occurs health educating the people regarding the disease to create awareness among the people.
2. Secondary Prevention : Early detection of disease through screening for signs and symptoms. This helps in early treatment of the disease and prevention of further complications.
3. Tertiary Prevention : Rehabilitative services provided for patients who are affected with the disease like Cancer, they can be referred to social service group. Or patients affected with polio, providing them with prosthesis or training them with small scale industry.

It is important to provide everyone with emergency care is to save a life in life threatening situations.

It is necessary and important to provide preventive care is to protect people from disease even before it can occur or early treatment given before it gets complicated and providing rehabilitative services to the patient.

Diagnostic procedures and elective surgeries are out of pocket with the increase in the technology. Use of various diagnostic test, equipment have become expensive. Sometimes due this people also hesitate to come to hospital for screening. It would be great if all these procedures are made available to the patient at affordable rates. Government hospitals should be equipped with all new innovative equipments so different economical group people would be able to avail for these services.

Government should also ensure to provide health insurances for non affordable people.,below the poverty line to avail all these services.