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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India's stretched health care system fails millions in rural areas battling sickle cell disease - ABC

India's stretched health care system fails millions in rural areas battling sickle cell disease - ABC

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published Published on May 29, 2023   modified Modified on May 29, 2023

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Poonam Gond is learning to describe her pain by numbers. Zero means no pain and 10 is agony. Poonam was at seven late last month. "I have never known zero pain," she said, sitting in the plastic chair where she spends most of her days. The 19-year-old has sickle cell disease, a genetic blood disorder. Her medicine ran out weeks ago.

Poonam's social worker, Geeta Aayam, nods as she bustles around Poonam. She has the same disease — but, with better care, leads a very different life.

Hundreds of millions of rural Indians struggle to access care for a simple reason: The country just doesn't have enough medical facilities.

India's population has quadrupled since its independence in 1947, and an already fragile medical system has been stretched too thin: In the country's vast countryside, health centres are rare, understaffed and sometimes run out of essential medicines.

For hundreds of millions of people, basic health care means a daunting journey to a distant government-run hospital.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 25 April, 2023, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-25/india-s-stretched-health-care-fails-millions-in-rural-areas/102254584


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