Recently, I've read a
lot of interviews with pediatricians and have even conducted one. I
got to know many interesting as well as bizarre things about the
health care industry and child health care. I'm just compiling the
all of them for a casual read.
All pediatricians say
that pediatrics, as a field has grown rapidly in the past 50 years.
Earlier, it was a lesser opted path for doctors and now it has become
an individual subject with its own subsets and supersets. This also
resulted in late realisation of infant and child health care which is
why India has such high number of child deaths due to infections and
diseases. Also, India has the highest number of births as well as
deaths in the world, 25 per cent and 30 per cent respectively. There
are a lot of imbalances in our country, like the wide gap between
urban and rural areas, rich and poor, and the state to state/ culture
to culture difference. The pediatricians feel that while vaccines
have decreased the number of child infected cases, it had not helped
a large proportion of the country due to its high cost before the
government started subsidising them. Now, around 80 per cent children
are covered by subsidised or sponsored vaccines. Pediatricians also
believe that ignorance, religious and cultural belief are an
important challenge in the face of child care industry.
A highly experienced
and renowned pediatrician as well as adolscent endicronologist, Dr.
IPS Kochar works as a senior consultant in Apollo Hospital,
Sarita Vihar and Fortis Hospital, Noida. He has also been associated
with prominent hospitals and institutions across the world like Great
Ormond Street Hospital, which is one of the best tertiary referral
child centers in the world. By - Jessica
For more visit : Endocrinology in Noida
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