Blogs - July 2010

At a public policy seminar recently, we sent out students for a field trip to a village nearby. The idea was to know the state of the local health facilities. Most people chose the private counterpart because of the high responsiveness. The apathy of the government doctors and the unavailability of medicines prescribed by them turned them off. At the same time, the government clinic doctors mentioned that the private clinic doctors administered high doses even for basic maladies. And thus the remedies of the private clinic doctors were only superficially effective.