Reasons why India’s healthcare system is struggling

-lack of infrastructure

India has been struggling with efficient infrastructure in the form of lack of well equipped medical institutes for quite a while now . To add to it, the rate of building such teaching or training facilities means remains less as compared to the need of the hour

-shortage of efficient and trained manpower

one of the most pressing problem 10 India is the severe shortage of trained manpower in the medical stream this includes doctors , nurses , paramedics and primary health care workers . The situation became very some in rural areas where 66% of India’s population resides.

-unmanageable patient load

even prior to the outbreak of covid-19 pandemic health care facilities had been feeling the strain , due to unmanageable patient load . more over serving a population of 1.4 billion remains herculean task itself when it comes to stability managing healthcare facilities