India on the verge of becoming World Capital of all NC diseases

New Delhi: After the ignominy of failing to meet global Millennium Goals, India is faced with the grim prospect of becoming the world capital of all the Non Communicable Diseases, leading causes of mortality and morbidity globally.

Healthcare leaders heaped together in 2 day National Health Conclave starting July 10 in Delhi underlined this impending catastrophe and deliberated hard upon the ways to stall the perilous progression of NCD. World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized diabetes, cardiovascular illness and stroke, cancer and chronic lung ailment as major non-communicable diseases.

The National Health Conclave (NHC) confronted the same old questions of low public healthcare spending, treatment cost increasingly becoming prohibitive, primary healthcare being in a shambles, lack of accessibility to quality healthcare etcetra. But Dr. Srinath Reddy, chairman, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), one of the greatest global health policy experts and architect of much talked about Universal Health Coverage (UHC), saw a silver lining. Dr. Reddy seemed to pin his hopes on recently unveiled National Health policy (NHP) with the rider that outcome would largely depend upon its implementation. Though Dr. Reddy finds it less than optimal, he underlined avowed aim of refurbishing Primary Healthcare as the strongest aspect of NHP. It talks of spending two thirds of all the resources available on making Primary Healthcare system robust. He said if implemented verbatim, healthcare scenario in India would for sure witness a sea change for the better in times to come. Dr. Reddy also stressed the need for UHC and generic drugs to make healthcare affordable to the poor.

Some off the cuff comments by members of parliament in the concluding session on the theme ?Role of the political will and media in shaping health policy in India? were incisive and deserve quoting. Dr. Kirit Prem Bhai Solanki, the BJP parliamentary law maker from Ahmadabad, said, touching upon dismally low public expenditure on healthcare, ?it should be understood that if you spend more of GDP on health, the GDP will go up.? He was inferred as saying that India is a country which wants to become an economic power before being healthy. India spends a little more than 1 percent of its GDP on health. Of course, the newly released National Health Policy after 15 years talks of enhancing the expenditure to 2.5 percent till 2020, still a dismal one.

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