Asian Journal of Development Matters

  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 1special

Rural health in India: Current scenario and challenges.

  • Author:
  • G Asmathunnisa1, Ankita Singh2
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • Published Online: Mar 1, 2018
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 198 to 206

1JSS Law College, Mysuru.

2IXth Semester BA LLB, JSS Law college, Mysuru.

Abstract

Health is not everything but everything else is nothing without health. “In the beginning, there was desire which was the first seed of mind,” says Rig-Veda, which probably is the earliest piece of literature known to mankind. Since antiquity India being the first state to give its citizens national health care as a uniform right. However in the present scenario Indian rural health care faces a crisis unmatched to any other social sector. Nearly 86% of all the medical visit in India are made by ruralites with majority still travelling more than 100 km to avail health care facility of which 70-80% is born out of pocket landing them in poverty. Ineffectiveness of the primary health care created a breach in referral system which should serve as an entry point for the individual and continuous comprehensive coordination at all level of health care.