One Nation One Health Policy

Shyam Sudan

There is an age old proverb that health is wealth. No doubt everyone wants to live a healthy life in his life span. In this modern and fast moving life people are suffering from lot of life style health ailments and other health related problems. Now a days the big issue for everyone’s life is health. We can’t say that people are not health conscious in their life style behavior. But due to adulteration in the entire ecosystem and pollution in every component we are facing the crisis of health issues in our life. There are lot of government and private health care hospitals and clinics are available in our country. Now almost in every big city and urban areas there is AIIMS like facilities are available in the country. The mega health insurance coverage scheme is also available for the welfare of general masses of our country. But due to population explosion we are facing the overburden in our health care clinics and hospitals. Now the health ailments are also of multiple in nature. Some of our health ailments needs immediate attention and instant treatment by the health experts. Some health ailments in our life needs gradual and prolonged treatment. They are not of emergence in nature. In our country mainly allopathic, homeopathy and Ayurveda system of treatment is available for the welfare of people. No doubt allopathic is the prime sector of our health care industry. But we can’t ignore the other two’s methods of health care system. Millions of people got the benefits by practicing yoga and homeopathy treatment. Basically these are our ancient methods of treatment and world recognized methods of treatment.
Now there is an urgent need to merge these three methods of treatment under one umbrella for the welfare of humanity. Government is also looking for this kind of change.
No doubt with the holistic approach and collaboration of all the health sectors we can bring a drastic change in our health system.
If all the three system of health care sits in a single desk, we can achieve our target in a more comfortable way. All the three outpatient departments can give their contributions in a holistic manner with more positive way. With the collaboration of all we can give better treatment to the suffering population of our country. Only blaming each other and proving dominance over other, we can’t achieve our target. Our prime motive is to give relief to the patients and improve their health. During COVID pandemic we have learnt lot of things.
No method of treatment is wrong and outdated in nature in three wings of our health system. Now it is a very apt time to launch this policy, one nation one health system.

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