Give Speciality Status to Primary Healthcare: Doctors urge Government
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New Delhi: Its indeed a dilemma, that while medicine remains a dream career for most young children in the country, yet, state governments across are struggling to find qualified medical practitioners to man its primary points of interaction with the patients.
President of the Academy of Family Physicians of India, Raman Kumar said, "By strengthening primary healthcare (PHC), burden of diseases at advance stages can be prevented. It needs effective planning and future road map to reach the target. The PHC forms the anchor around which entire healthcare delivery system is organised."
"Primary healthcare is not yet recognized by the Medical Council of India (MCI) as a specialty, although MCI has advocated for the creation of a diploma course in family medicine. Primary healthcare practitioners therefore have no formal system for career progression. They have lower pay and worse working conditions than their hospital colleagues," he added.
Raising this issue, the Academy of Family Physicians of India (AFPI) has recently urged the government to give the status of "speciality" to primary healthcare , saying their experts (family physicians) are the first point of contact for healthcare for most people.
President of the Academy of Family Physicians of India, Raman Kumar said, "By strengthening primary healthcare (PHC), burden of diseases at advance stages can be prevented. It needs effective planning and future road map to reach the target. The PHC forms the anchor around which entire healthcare delivery system is organised."
"Primary healthcare is not yet recognized by the Medical Council of India (MCI) as a specialty, although MCI has advocated for the creation of a diploma course in family medicine. Primary healthcare practitioners therefore have no formal system for career progression. They have lower pay and worse working conditions than their hospital colleagues," he added.
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