Dr K Nishing, Additional Director at Directorate of Health Services, Arunachal Pradesh, took a quick time out to speak on the healthcare scenario of his state. He goes candid in saying the states healthcare stands much behind from the rest of India

Kindly shed some light on the healthcare scenario of Arunachal Pradesh ?
We are in Arunachal Pradesh; the population density here is very less. Because of which our healthcare delivery cost is very high. We do not have any medical college, dental college, nursing college till now. So first and foremost we want to have these established in the state. We are lacking super specialties, we do not have any neuro-surgeon, cardiologist, cardio surgeon and we are still very far behind the Indian healthcare scenario. However, we are planning and trying to cope up with the healthcare scenario of the rest of India. As Arunachal Pradesh is internationally bordering China, Burma and Bhutan, our main problem is that our population density is not very high and local area network area is very weak, it is 84, 000 thousand square kilometer but population is say 12 lakh only. So the cost delivery of healthcare is very high. To deliver to the beneficiary and grass root level we have to spend a lot of money. For that we dont get substantial fund assistance from the central Government because the Government funding scheme is based on population and density and not based on distance and difficult area based. Therefore we suffer and face great difficulties. This is not happening only in Arunachal Pradesh but it is happening in all India level. We are not able to make understand the Government of India about our situation.

What are the healthcare projects have been launched in the state?
We dont have any separate healthcare projects running in the state. Whatever is there with the Government of India healthcare initiative plans, we are trying to implement those here. Indian healthcare is good, the IAS system is good but the main thing is that the beneficiary should get the benefits. With the less number of populations we are handicapped to offer prompt and efficient healthcare. Sometimes we need to send a helicopter or need three to four days to reach a single patient.

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