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Today on a press event, HLFPPT has an emphasis on the role of NGOs in supporting the health care system in India.

The healthcare infrastructure in India consists of primary, secondary, and tertiary health care. Healthcare is provided by both public and private health care providers. At present through Mobile Medical Units HLFPPT is supporting various State Health Department to mitigate the risk of Coronavirus and contain it from spreading.

As per the representatives of the organization, middle and upper-class people of India are inclined to use public healthcare less than those with a lower standard of living. In such a case, the role of NGOs and voluntary sectors becomes important and crucial.
The representatives highlighted the following roles of NGOs in supporting the health care system in India.

1. For Providing Quality Health Care to Poor People-

The quality of health care available to the poor population in India is a serious matter of concern. Around 61% of the poor use public health centers compared to 40% of the non-poor.
Drawbacks to India's healthcare system is low-quality care, corruption, a lack of accountability, unethical care, overcrowding of clinics, poor cooperation between public and private spheres, lack of public health knowledge, and many more.
Under such conditions, NGOs are no less than hope for the poor populations, as they offer affordable and sustainable health care to the poor.

2. For Raising Awareness related to Health and Well-Being -

As per the studies conducted at many levels in various Indians states, it can be concluded that India lacks health-related awareness at a large level.
The reason may vary from low educational status to poor health care infrastructure.
Taking all these things in mind, it is quite clear that we as a society must work together to raise inclusive awareness.
NGOs have been playing a vital role in raising mass awareness among people since the independence of the nation.

3. To Meet the Need of Human Power in Health Care-

One of the major drawbacks of Indian health care infrastructure is that it lacks the required number of trained personnel in the medical field. A study conducted in 2011, states that India has 20 health workers per 10,000 population.

What makes it worse is that there is a lack of even distribution of this workforce. In the private sector, there is a surge of hospitals and top-quality infrastructure but still, the shortage of health workers exists.
When it comes to the public sector there is an acute shortage of both infrastructure and health workers.
In such an environment, by providing health services to the marginalized section of the society, NGOs also help in filling the vacant space of health workers.

About HLFPPT

Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust (HLFPPT) is a national not-for-profit health services organization, working on the entire spectrum of RMNCH+A (Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Healthcare), including HIV Prevention & Control and Primary Healthcare. At HLFPPT, they are passionate about ensuring safe motherhood and better child health, ultimately building happier and healthy future generations.