Health Minister of your state- What One Thing You Will Do?

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Let us say you are appointed Health Minister of your state/province or country for a week.
What One or Two Things You Will undertake?
(NB: Let me know which state /country you are interested in? MBH is inviting applications for the positions. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Country: India
State: Kerala
If I become the health minister:

  1. I will ensure everyone is getting medicines for chronic common diseases at affordable price.
  2. I will increase the availability of rabies vaccine to all PHCs and hospitals.
  3. Will ensure whole health department is working upto their best as considering each patient as their own someone.
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  • Emergency Sanitation & Safe Water in Rural Maternal/Child Health Centers (personal experience)
  • Emergency Transport for Critical Cases

In a week, systemic change is impossible, but fixing visible gaps that kill people daily is doable. As a med student, I’ve seen how small, targeted actions save lives more urgently than policy drafts.

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Im from Bengal, Siliguri to be specific
As a Health Minister

  1. easy availability of critical health services: since North Bengal is a hilly area it has poor connectivity, for the same easy access to critical basic health care needs is what I’ll look upon

  2. Tertiary Care centre at major districts:
    Same reason, we don’t have major tertiary centres here. Hence people have to go to major cities for operations

  3. for MBBS students particularly, in all medical college increase the supply of books and subsidize it at lower cost so that medical students can afford

  4. More ANC clinics and proper implementation for National Health Mission through ASHA workers

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  1. Making good policies for sanitation… It is very important to prevent communicable diseases like Cholera and malaria, where sanitation is the main problem.

  2. Food hygeine rules for street vendors, another important aspect to prevent diseases like typhoid and jaundice

  3. Emergency ambulance van rules to make it more accessible and easy to call

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Gujarat

Will go for awareness campaign related to pseudoscience being practiced in rural area

Pass rules that will allow medical students n healthcare workers go home to home in search of undetected diseases

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For me it was my state “maharashtra”. Because, in my state comparatively there is less medical and health care services particularly in my region and I will make available emergency vans and affordable medical treatment.

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  1. Reducing duty hours of resident doctors
  2. safety of female doctors especially those who posted for night sift and have to travel in night hours