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. 
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Country: India
State: Kerala
If I become the health minister:
- I will ensure everyone is getting medicines for chronic common diseases at affordable price.
- I will increase the availability of rabies vaccine to all PHCs and hospitals.
- 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
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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
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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 -
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
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More ANC clinics and proper implementation for National Health Mission through ASHA workers
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Making good policies for sanitation… It is very important to prevent communicable diseases like Cholera and malaria, where sanitation is the main problem.
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Food hygeine rules for street vendors, another important aspect to prevent diseases like typhoid and jaundice
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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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- Reducing duty hours of resident doctors
- safety of female doctors especially those who posted for night sift and have to travel in night hours
I think before implementing something we need to be sure that it can be practised and to be taken further in future. In kerala, I would like to add
- Online booking allocating token number with time in all hospital for better time frame. I have seen patients waiting for hours in hospitals which creates a crowd in front of each departments, as contagious disease can be caused in such conditions.
- Insurance to patients as like in US which covers cost of treatments.
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I ll firstly check all the near by hospital whixh are running with out licience and doing every thing like multispecialty clinics and playing with the life of individual…
And ll maintain a perfect schedule for rmo tht they shldnt be over burdened… ll reduce some working hours too.
I would choose northeast states in India.
Two things I would implement are:
• annual or half yearly screening of the endemic disease and screening for three months for vulnerable population.
•make sure medicines are affordable and available to everybody
If I were the health minister, I would focus on improving primary healthcare services. Strengthening early diagnosis and preventive care can reduce the burden on hospitals and improve overall health outcomes
- One dedicated doctor for every village- A single doctor who can build trust , catches problem early , can communicate with patients and most importantly create awareness would be better than a single doctor who would be juggling between multiple villages. One dedicated doctor per village means less exhaustion , more focus and more time to care for people for the doctor and better awareness, accessible treatment and timely diagnosis for the people.
Country: India
State: Punjab
One Thing I Would Do:
Focus on the problem of high uranium content in the groundwater and working with municipalities for water purification.
Since I am a resident of Bhubaneshwar, i would provide the following suggestions :-
- increased supply of good quality books for MBBS students at a subsidized rate which is uniform in all colleges be it private or government run
- safety of female residents who have frequent night shifts.
I would prioritize the importance of primary healthcare system in my state. PHC’s with adequate doctors would improve treatment in rural areas.
As a health minister of Tamilnadu; My first mission would be Quality care for all, Starting from rural Primary healthcare by improving the facilities, affordable medicines and most importantly remove the fear of primary healthcare by building the trust through better behaviour of staffs and create awareness to make our government hospitals will be the first choice for every citizens.
State :Tamil nadu
As a Health Minister of my state
- I would only allow a licensed person to prescribe and dispense medicine. No other person without proper degree or knowledge in medicine should be allowed inside pharmacy.
- Update pharmacy syllabus, which not only focus on medicine knowledge, but also in patient care as how it is in other country.
- Reduce the work load in pharmaceutical industries with good pay.
- Stop online Pharmacy. As medicines are not groceries.
- Every doctor or medical practitioner or pharmacist should have a record of Adverse drug effects.
As a health minister, i would work on people’s medical Awareness education, hygiene awareness, children’s vaccination, and early check-ups to reduce diseases incidence.
State : Telangana
- Change the work hours of doctors. Long hours would be challenging to the doctors.
- Strict rules to follow proper documentation of drugs that are given during hospitalization and maintenance of electronic health records.