Analysis of Healthcare in Indian Community: Service Provider Interview

This report presents a community health analysis of the Indian healthcare system, based on an interview with a community healthcare service provider. The interview explores prevalent health problems, including lung diseases, gastrointestinal disorders, and infectious diseases, particularly in rural areas. The provider discusses their roles and responsibilities, including patient treatment and referrals, while also highlighting the lack of health awareness and inadequate government support. The report examines the availability of health resources, literacy levels among community members, and the effectiveness of existing preventive programs. Findings reveal significant challenges, such as poor hygiene and sanitation, lack of access to quality healthcare, and inadequate funding for preventive measures. The analysis emphasizes the need for increased awareness programs, improved sanitation facilities, and greater investment in healthcare to address the health issues within the Indian community. The provider stresses the importance of addressing these issues through education, government support, and improved resource allocation to enhance the quality of life for the population.

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Community analysis can be defined as a crucial part of the nursing practice that allows the health
care service users to learn about the major health issues present in a specific community along
with the strategy implemented by the community healthcare service providers. In the following
section I, as a heath care service provider, have interviewed an Indian community healthcare
service provider in order understand his roles, responsibly as well as experience associated with
healthcare issues in the mentioned community.
Interview transcript
Me: Hello Mr. X, nice to meet you. I would like to inform you that the chief reason behind
conducting this interview is to gather information about the condition of healthcare in the Indian
community.
Interviewee: Yes, I am aware of the fact. Nice too meet you.
Me: What according to you are some of the predominant health problem in India?
Interviewee: Well, the major health issues that are often experienced by us includes lung diseases
as well as disorder, heart diseases, gastrointestinal disorders and diabetes. Being a developing
country, majority of the residents of the nation, specially those who resides in the metro cities
like Mumbai and Delhi, suffers from lung disorders du to prevalent of toxic air pollutions , along
with this inapposite hygiene as well as sanitation results in gastrointestinal disorders. When it
comes to the rural areas contagious water born and infectious diseases like typhoid, infectious
hepatitis, worm infestations, measles and diarrhea are highly prevalent, thanks to lack of
unhygienic food consumption and sanitation practices. When it comes to women, Urinary tract
infection and Reproductive tract infections are found to be highly common.
Me: As a community healthcare service provider, what exactly is your role and responsibilities?

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Interviewee: My primary role includes providing treatment to the patients in my community. We
check the condition of the patients, prescribe them with medication. We also refer the patient to
surgeons if need.
Me: Do you think there still presence any scope of improvement when it comes to the services
provided by you?
Interviewee: Off course. The concept of community care nurse is not common in India. The
workforce is really less since majority of the students studding healthcare are opting for jobs,
thanks there exist lack of health awareness which can be prevented trough education. to the
highly competitive market. In India, there exist lack of health awareness which can be prevented
trough education. However, since no or limited amount of support is gained from the
government, we lacks the ability to provide the same.
Me: Do you think adequate health resources are available to the community in order to ensure
appropriate health?
Interviewee: Well, I don’t think so. The community is suffering from lack of adequate coverage
by the health care system. The service provided at governed hospitals is really poor. Majority of
the government hospitals in the community lacks adequate healthcare service providers, beds
medicines so you can’t rely on them. People are found to opt for private hospital. Then again the
cost of treatment is so high, this option is inaccessible for poor. The premature death rate of the
lower middle class in India due to lack of appropriate healthcare is high. Along with this,
majority of the lower income members of the Indian community are found to be suffering from
lack of proper nutrition.
Me: Do you think community members possess the literacy to use the available health resources?

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Interviewee: Not at all. As per UNICEF, waterborne diseases like diarrhea as well as respiratory
infections are considered to be the chief reason behind child deaths in India. People living in
rural area still lacks the awareness of consuming contaminated water. We had conducted a
survey where only 32 percent of the rural household are found to use proper sanitation. The
concept of sanitary pad is not even clear majority of the residents in rural areas. People are
unaware the impact of defecating in public places.
Me: what are the major preventive programs?
Interviewee: From the government a good number of preventive programs are held. Workshops
are held in order to make rural people aware of the importance of sanitary hygiene, consumption
of contamination free water and staffs. Several pay and use toilets has been constructed in the
community. Not only this, free health checkup campaigns are also held in rural regions.
Me: So do you think that the exiting preventive programs are adequate?
Interviewee: A lot of things are still need to be done. First of all, the frequency of awareness
programs held are not at all enough to address the health issues of the community. More free
toilets are needed to be built within the community in order to ensure effective hygienic
sanitation. Women should be provided with either free or low cost sanitary napkins in order to
prevent the occurrence of UTI and RTI. Both the state and local government should invest on
healthcare in order to enhance the quality and accessibility of government healthcare service.
Findings
From the interview conducted with Mr. X, one of the Community health care service
providers of the Indian Community, it has been found that India lacks effective healthcare
services that is needed to ensure quality life of the population. While a good number of

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government hospitals are present in the nation, the quality of healthcare provided by the same is
unhygienic to such an extreme that in spite of being affordable, majority of the residents of the
nation are found to opt for pervade hospital services. However, being highly expensive, the
lower middle class of the community cannot afford private hospitals. When it comes to rural
India, unhygienic water consumption and sanitary practices are found to be the chief reasons
behind health concerns amongst rural people. People lacks awareness about the impact of
consuming contaminated water and conducting unhygienic sanitary practices. Women lack the
knowledge of sanitary pad usage and majority of them are suffering from UT1 and RTI. While
several workshops and pay and use toilets are introduced by the government in rural areas, more
funding and resources are required to eradicate the issue form its core.