Resolution No. 1
It is most essential
to pursue healthy and hygienic life style and provide access to medical
facilities to the common people, for ensuring healthy and disease free life for
all the citizens. Today, when the diseases arising out of unhealthy life styles
are growing fast, medical services are becoming out of access for common
citizens due to forbidding cost. Consequently, innumerable families are either
getting indebted or large number of families are even deprived of their means
of subsistence for want of treatment of the earning members of the family.
Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha expresses its deep concern over this state.
For the sound
health, it is most necessary to accord
significance to healthy diet, way of -living and lifestyle along with
virtuousness, spirituality, yog, daily exercise and cleanliness. Children
should be vaccinated timely. It is also very significant that society becomes
free from all kinds of intoxications.
Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha is of the opinion that all the
conscious citizens, including the sawaymsevaks should endeavour to arouse wider
public awareness in this direction.
On account of
concentration of medical facilities in the large towns, there is shortage of
medical facilities in the remote and
rural areas. Large number of people are deprived of medical facilities due to
inadequate medical facilities and shortage of medical personnel, and the long
queues for admission, diagnosis and
treatment. Rising cost of medical education is one of the major causes for the
expensive medical services and deterioration in their quality and credibility.
Quality medical services should be accessible to all citizens, including women
and children in the country. For this, well functioning medical services of all
kinds and systems need to be expanded across the country especially in rural
and tribal areas. Information technology should be effectively used for the
continuity in treatment and expert counsel.
Hospitals run by
various social, religious and community organisations with charitable and philathropic attitude at
various places in the country, have been providing treatment to the common
people in society very effectively and judiciously. Government support needs to
be extended to such endeavours, worth emulation. Appreciating all such endeavours,
the Pratinidhi Sabha calls upon the country's industry groups, voluntary and
social organisations and charitable trusts to further come forward in this
direction. From this perspective, public and community partnerships and
co-operative institutions need to be
promoted.
The schemes of
free distribution of medicines started in some states in last few years and the
proposal made for 3000 generic medicine centres by the central government in
the recent budget are welcome moves. To bring medicines within the reach of
common people, promotion of generic medicines, effective control of drug prices
and making of the patents regime humane is necessary. To ensure the quality of
medicines, they should be regularly tested in the laboratories. Standardisation
and development of methods of testing of medicines of Ayurvedic, Unani and
other systems is also important.
The Akhil
Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha calls upon all the countrymen, including
swayamsevaks, voluntary organisations and the government to endeavour to make
lives of all citizens disease free by awakening the society for healthy life
style, child and mother's healthcare, eradication of malnourishment and
deaddiction against intoxication. For making all kinds of medical services
accessible to common people, the central and state governments should bring
requisite improvement in the infrastructure, policies and procedures, with the
allocation of adequate resources. For this, coordinated expansion, regulation,
teaching and research be promoted in all the systems of medicine, and the
regulatory mechanism and statutory provisions be executed transparently.
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