Is Economic Growth the "TRUE Development"?

Development, the word itself describes a meaning or in simpler words development can be termed as "proliferation" in a country  or "building up" for a nation. As far as a country is concerned , development does mean a lot, Development can be linked to economic growth, economic growth indicates an economy of a country or it's GDP. Having an economy of $3.3 Trillion after humangous economies of $14.3 Trillion and $8 Trillion of The United States and China respectively does not make India a developed or a developing country , not alone economy but there are other factors as well which contribute to Development. The reason why India comes under LEDC(Less Economically Developed Country) and not an MEDC is because there are many other sectors which still should be considered when it comes to development of a country. Sectors like National Security, Healthcare and one of the most important Education also need to be considered when it comes to true development. Education sectors in MEDC'S like US, UK, CHINA, JAPAN have recorded, established and maintained an education literacy rate of 99% as compared to India's literacy rate of just 66%, even today when the higher authorities(our own Government) sometimes talk about development in rural areas of India promising "n" number of facilities in the face of development none of them is actually implemented and as a matter of fact, when people show reluctancy regarding everything with what means can India be even termed as a "Developing Nation" forget about being called a "Developed Nation" !
          Healthcare Industry also stresses a lot of importance when it comes to development of India. Are adequate medical facilities being provided and are safety measures being taken to ensure lives of people? For example Kasturba Medical College Manipal had conducted this Mock Drill for Disaster Management just to see and check their preparedness for any hazard if in case any disaster takes place, frankly speaking after covering the Mock Drill for a STUDENT NEWS WEBSITE facilities were quite impressive, but the ratio of doctors and patients was found to be quite inadequate, there were some 3 interns and 2 qualified doctors including some PG students which was supposedly enough for around 15-16 patients. What if someday an actual disaster happens will a mere group of 5 doctors be able to attend 15 patients what if simultaneously every patient is found to be in a very critical condition and even during the mock drill one major fault was student reporters directly barged into the Emergency Triage area which is supposedly called as an attending room for patients in real world a reporter during any REAL disaster is not even allowed to barge in the hospital. This was the case with KMC but what about other good hospitals all around the country, many a times we see patients and victims dying either in the hospital or due to negligience shown towards their treatment and some die unattended !!! Giving some weird reason that the hospital was not ready with the ambulance or sometimes there was shortage of ambulance this becomes the reason amongst other which affect the Healthcare Industry and in turn questions the Country's attention towards Healthcare Industry because after all it is ultimately the "Government of India" which is running our country and is responsible for everything including social, economical growth along with all the citizens of India.
To conclude Government still has a lot to cover in our country and a huge amount of garbage that needs to be cleaned as soon as possible which can nearly take another 15-20 years...

KMC conducts Disaster Management Mock Drill

18 January, 2011 07:10:00Anshul Hardikar

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Ambulance used during drill || Photo Courtesy: Tasneem Jivi

Manipal: Kasturba Medical College (KMC) organised a Disaster Management Mock Drill on Jan 16th. The drill was initiated by NABH (National Accreditation for Board of Hospitals and Healthcare) and every hospital undertakes it once a year, although KMC holds it twice a year. The purpose behind the mock drill was to check the preparedness of KMC as a hospital in the event of any disaster.

The Mock Drill started at 9 a.m. at S Chandrashekhar Hostel with all the 30 volunteers from MMMC as patients when an ambulance started shifting them to KMC for immediate assistance. Upon reaching KMC they were immediately shifted to the Emergency Triage (TR) for treatment. The ER had four senior doctors, four PG medical students and two interns for assistance. Further, for the treatment of patients, KMC had divided its doctors into 10 different teams (A to H).

“There were 29 casualities reported out of which three were critical and 16 patients were serious. However, there is a requirement for more telephone lines as the telephone lines were jammed,” said Pulgaonkar, Senior Medical Superitendent of KMC. When asked about the ambulance backup he said, “One driver and one highly qualified doctor who is usually a trauma specialist are there in the ambulance and KMC also has its own Disaster Management Cell in the hospital itself.”

KMC is the only hospital in Manipal and Udupi amongst all the government and private hospitals which conducts this mock drill twice a year to check its preparedness for unforseen and unfortunate instances.

Sub-edited by: Aditya Ramachandran