The current scenario of health care envisages preventive and curative health. The Government is trying its best toimprove the primary health care since we attained independence 61 years ago. Rapid strides have been made to improvethe quality of curative health care services to the people. There have been some spectacular successes such as eradicationof smallpox. The infant mortality rate has also shown a steady decline. Life expectancy has doubled.
The technologicaladvances are taking place rapidly, and there is an improvement in the quality of total health care which has resulted in arapid fall in the crude death rate from 27 per cent in 1951 to 9.8 per cent in 1991, and at present it stands at 6.4 per cent.
New development in vaccinology is instrumental in providing protection against major communicable diseases.The health care provides a three-tier system—the dispensaries of the primary health centres, the hospitals managed bythe Government and the local authorities like Municipal Corporations and Hospitals managed by corporate organisations,and then tertiary care centres including the medical colleges
The technologicaladvances are taking place rapidly, and there is an improvement in the quality of total health care which has resulted in arapid fall in the crude death rate from 27 per cent in 1951 to 9.8 per cent in 1991, and at present it stands at 6.4 per cent.
New development in vaccinology is instrumental in providing protection against major communicable diseases.The health care provides a three-tier system—the dispensaries of the primary health centres, the hospitals managed bythe Government and the local authorities like Municipal Corporations and Hospitals managed by corporate organisations,and then tertiary care centres including the medical colleges
