In-patient facility at taluk-level not possible: Murali
Health Minister K. Muraleedharan clarified that the government cannot provide in-patient facilities at sub-taluk level healthcare institutions due to resource constraints. However, he indicated a potential exception for the Pozhiyoor facility to serve coastal residents.
Why it matters
Highlights the tension between public health policy and the practical needs of rural and coastal communities in India.
Health Minister K. Muraleedharan has clarified that providing in-patient facility in healthcare institutions below taluk-level was not possible as a matter of policy as this involves huge investment in human resources, including that of doctors, nurses and other ancillary workers. In-patient facility creation also involved the creation of a host of basic infrastructural requirements which would not be possible at smaller healthcare institutions.
He was replying to a calling attention motion moved by N. Sakthan on Tuesday, who said that IP facility in two family health centres at Pozhiyoor and Chenkal, which were stopped by the previous LDF government, needed to be reinstated. He also said that the development of Neyyattinkara GH needed to be speeded up
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