Reluctance of medical personnel to work in rural areas and the imperative to functionalize peripheral health services; are public private partnerships the answer: an evaluation of the proposal to give community health centers (chcs) on ppp mode in Uttrakhand State of India (original) (raw)

Global Journal of Medicine and Public Health, 2014

Abstract

Non-availability of doctors willing to serve in rural areas is a big roadblock in making the rural health services fully functional in the country to provide adequate primary and secondary level curative services to the people. Apart from many reasons like the lack of development and facilities in rural and remote areas, the main reason for the doctors' unwillingness to serve in the rural areas seems to be the fact that medical profession has become captive of the elite sections of the society. This coupled with market oriented growth of health care in the country has led to the practice of medicine being viewed as a lucrative career option for the well- to- do sections of the society rather than as a means to fulfill the more laudable social objective of health care. The government of the state of Uttrakhand in India has taken initiative to give some of the best equipped Community Health Centers (CHCs) in the state on PPP (Public Private Partnership) mode in order to provide as...

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