Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 150
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 151
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Modi to copy Mao's healthcare system

Modi to copy Mao's healthcare system

Share this article Share this article
published Published on Jul 22, 2010   modified Modified on Jul 22, 2010

It's not China's special economic zones that chief minister Narendra Modi wants to replicate in Gujarat. The state government has taken a leaf out of the Chinese cultural revolution of late 1960s, when Mao Zedong formally attacked "western trained" medical system and floated the concept of ‘barefoot doctors'.

The health ministry has decided to compensate for sharp shortage of allopathic doctors in the state by making large-scale appointment of barefoot doctors, even as making massive investments in the ayurvedic and homeopathic sectors.

Soon after the weekly Cabinet meeting, government spokesperson Jay Narayan Vyas said, "We have identified 102 urban health centres, each catering to a population of 50,000, where barefoot doctors will work". Incidentally, China abolished barefoot doctors system in 1981 after the Maoist phase ended.

To be called ‘Usha workers', Gujarat's barefoot doctors will undergo a short training course in providing basic health facilities, to be given in government health centres. "To be mainly women, there will be one barefoot doctor for every 2,000 population living in slum areas," Vyas said, adding, "The model will closely follow appointment of 27,000 community health workers currently working in rural areas, one for every 1,000 population."

Mao had sharply criticised the "urban bias" of medical system, changing China's health policy in 1968 and integrated the barefoot doctors programme into national policy. It is still not known who will train Gujarat's barefoot doctors, whose outlines have been worked out by state health commissioner VL Joshi.

Vyas, who is also health minister, admitted Gujarat would face severe shortage of doctors even as it takes up a huge healthcare check-up of 1.34 crore children in the age group 0-14.

In order to promote local medical system, the government allocated Rs 304 crore for promoting Ayurveda. An ayurvedic medical college and hospital and a training centre will start next to Gandhinagar at Kolavda village with an investment of Rs 152 crore. The Maniben Ayurvedic Hospital in Ahmedabad will get an aid of Rs 8 crore. New ayurvedic hospitals will be set up for Rs 26 crore, even as upgrading present ones for Rs 16 crore. Ayurvedic pharmacy will get Rs 3 crore grant.


The Times of India, 22 July, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Modi-to-copy-Maos-healthcare-system/articleshow/6198573.cms


Related Articles

 

Write Comments

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close