AIIMS doctors, students decry govt apathy towards healthcare
New Delhi: Doctors and students at AIIMS strongly deplored the apathy displayed by successive governments towards improving health care delivery systems in the country and pitched for a Health for All concept.
In a convention held at the institute here, the participants resolved to build a powerful movement for achieving Health for All.
Health for All is a wide concept having socio-economic, preventive and curative aspects. Adequate nutrition, safe drinking water and healthy habitat are integral to achieving it.
The speakers and participants demanded higher budget allocation for health, more and better equipped hospitals in all the areas including remote areas, availability of health personnel including doctors, nurses, technicians and other paramedical staff, availability of medicines and necessary investigations, adequate and fully functional set-up for preventing diseases and strengthening primary health care delivery system.
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