Comments on: Siddhartha Yadav: Is it time for a global health service?

By: George

George — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:03:45 +0000

Ananta, i have to agree with you on that. Preventative medicine as a concept deals with minimising risk of infection instead of treating symptoms of infection. To minimise the risks of infection they would have to look at the causes of infection and how to reduce/eliminate these causes. I think the concept of a worldwide health service would be excellent, however, the service would probably be limited in its usefulness due to different political agendas in different countries. For example, in the US, healthcare is not free, so, from a business point of view, why should doctors in the US have to treat foreign patients that give them no extra revenue. These are some of my thoughts.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:46:23 +0000

I think it is a great idea in theory, and admire you for you optimism. Unfortunately, I believe the reality of a global health system would b an extremely long way off, due to the financial implications for the richer nations. At the end of the day, governments in those countries are not going to give an absurb amount of money to fund a global health service when they could have an arguably better national health service. Despite this, I can see a situation where an organ bank is set up globally, although this too has its downfalls. Keep up the good work, Keith

By: ananta niraula

ananta niraula — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:10:55 +0000

Thinking of sharing global medical technologies is good, but I really want to draw your attention to creating an effective health care system at community level can have tremendous positive impact on people’s health. I have been reading and examining Nepal’s health care system . There are a lot that can be done and should be done at the community level. If you focus more on your commuinty that you live in and examine its medical needs, problems and possible solutions and act on it would probably be something that I would expect from you-the future doctor.

ananta

By: Owen Lewis

Owen Lewis — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:02:00 +0000

Siddhartha’s visionary idea seems impossible to most of us, but this was probably the same for John Beller in 1710, when he proposed a European parliament and in 1714 when he published a plan for a national health service. This I learned from Wendy Moore’s short piece “230 Years before Beveridge” (BMJ 2008;337:a571). Three cheers for idealism and altruism in the inevitable trend of historical globalism.

By: Siddhartha Yadav

Siddhartha Yadav — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:12:53 +0000

Thank you for your comments on my blog. With so many of us already feeling the need for a global health services, I hope that it will come into existence sooner than I expect. I agree with Roshen’s idea that WHO, which has been working on the global stage, has potential to implement this. Thank you once again and I hope to keep on interacting with you all on health related issues in the future too.

By: Sanjeeta

Sanjeeta — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:06:26 +0000

If really global health care could come into existence,it would be one of the greatest achivement for mankind.Besides acting directly to improve the health status in all the developing countries,it would be a great step forward to improve the quality of life.Its one of the most innovative ideas that should be acted upon.

By: Roshen Mathew

Roshen Mathew — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:52:23 +0000

The idea of comprehensive global health care would be a great reform universally if it came into existence. Beside sharing health and technological resources for a better health infrastructure, it would even benefit developed countries like USA where uninsured population too suffer from the effects of not having health insurance. In a world where countries are struggling to provide health coverage to their citizens without having a hole in their coffers and GPA; this idea would be difficult to implicate, yet the idea seems so ideal and so humane if it came into practice. We already have an organization the World Health Organization (WHO) which could put this idea into practice if only countries would get together and work towards this distant goal. But who’s got the time?

By: shiva

shiva — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:37:51 +0000

its really a good vision. to have global heath service in this modern age with modern technologoes is qite feasible.as mentioned, the advantages in qualty medical services and research & development is more important fact associted in it. but the financial analysis can only make it feasible. so its nice effort to raise such an impotant issue in this localised national scenarios. wish it may come in life soon.

By: nagendra

nagendra — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:59:43 +0000

ya,this is a great idea.The idea of central funding with a global organ bank can help acheive the goal of global health service.there would be a day in near future when this could be accomplished.

By: Namita

Namita — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:14:46 +0000

Its a genuine idea.I think time demands a single health service around the world.Repeated dialysis in patients at times is not only frustating to patient and their families but also to doctors treating them because u know u can do lot of things but still u can do nothing because of limited resources available in developing countries like Nepal .Though there are some foundations helping patients suffering from kidney disease but a broader concept like Global health service will definitely be a good idea for better health care delivery to patients.

By: prerana

prerana — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:57:48 +0000

ya,its a novel idea and a high time to think about it.

By: rajendra rajbhandari

rajendra rajbhandari — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:33:15 +0000

i think this will be a very good idea.carry on!

By: Uttam

Uttam — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:56:31 +0000

Ya ! It’s a novel idea .

A wide-spread debate is possible on this idea . A pilot project may be taken to study it’s economic feasibiliy .

By: Rajeshwar Sharma

Rajeshwar Sharma — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:12:55 +0000

It is a proud to Nepalese that you are trying to touch the sky in this stage of your career. Carry on. Nest of luck.
Rajeshwar sharma

By: Ha

Ha — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:57:16 +0000

Yes. You are right. I am planing to open a website for health care education and information for Vietnamese people. I am looking for collaboration from individuals and organizations to make life better.

By: pallavi yadav

pallavi yadav — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:55:02 +0000

not just doctors even the patients feel the same…a little help does’nt hurt afterall.

By: shankar

shankar — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:11:42 +0000

Yeah it is important concern in the developing countries like Nepal, with the use of on-counter antibiotics and a changing life patterns the incidence of Chronic kidney Disease is day by day increasing. The burden of dialyis to support the life of people with poor per capita income is hardly sustainable and next is the Transplantaion facility which is lagging in our part. Central level of National Health Sevice is yet to be properly estabished and implemented and different political downfalls the nation is facing is surely the one the major short comings and one of the key to support such country and their poor health facility is inturn to raise a global health concern. Global Health Facility may be a key to such problems and should be experimented.