Mother-child medical facility highly critical in hospitals of Jaipur and Rajasthan

According to a recent survey, out of every 1000 child births in the state, 47 die in absence of medical facilities. They die due to lack of timely or necessary medical treatment. In the country, likewise child death rate, mother death rate is also highest of Rajasthan. Out of every 1,00,000 females that give birth to child, 255 die. Even when government is working for betterment of health facilities making millennium development goal as basis. Highest priority has been given to mother-child. The main reason identified is non-de-centralisation of the medical facilities. Medical facilities for mother-child are provided only in few hospitals of state. In the capital Jaipur alone, the entire responsibility of mother-child medical facility lies only on 3 hospitals.

These hospitals have all the facilities and major devices for better health diagnosis, but long queues, waiting list of several days for operations and several other factors are making even these hospitals unable to diagnosis mother-child timely.

In Jaipur, 9 other child and mother disease specialists are available but in absence of necessary infrastructure and facilities in those hospitals, patients remain uninterested for check-ups in those hospitals and it directly creates heavy traffic of patients in the 3 major hospitals. Even availability of best doctors and modern infrastructure facilities fail to diagnosis the patients timely.         

Three highly patients populated hospitals

1.Janana Hospital Chandpol

Facilities provided

 2. JK Loan Hospital

Facilities provided

Child Surgery Department

Child Medicine Department

 3. Sanganeri Gate Women Hospital

Facilities provided

Possible solutions as provided by ex-invigilators and experts

1. Only referred patients should be checked up in the major hospitals; other patients should be diagnosed in the alternate hospitals;
2. Small hospitals should be well-developed and adequate facilities should be provided so that patients can get satisfy on reaching those hospitals;
3. Maximum limit of OPD can be set and the patients exceeding the limit should be given appointment for the succeeding day;

This problem needs to be encountered at the earliest by Government and concerned authorities. For this the solutions as provided above can be considered. A team can be established to give a detailed report on the issues faced by patients and the hospital authorities and then possible solutions can be carved out after detailed discussions with Head of Departments and senior management.