( Dr.Bidhan Chandra Roy)
Today, the 1st of July, is Doctors’ Day, a day which is celebrated with a lot of enthusiasm among the healthcare community in India. It is the birth anniversary of Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, the eminent physician and statesman from West Bengal, who was instrumental in the growth of both Medicine and social and economic development . Dr.Roy was the Chief Minister of his state from 1948 -1962, and was awarded the nation’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1961.
Doctors, along with Nurses and other healthcare workers, are the primary dispensers of healing. Medicine and healing have been around for ages, probably one of the world’s oldest professions. Starting with the ancient Indians, Egyptians, Persians, Chinese, Romans, Greek and the Arabs, with their own systems of therapy, Medicine evolved as a heterogeneous branch where the physician’s role was to heal and comfort. However, healthcare has evolved radically since then, and the breathtaking developments of the last two centuries have brought transformed modern day healthcare, probably unrecognizably. Diseases such as Small Pox, which were scourges, have been eradicated. New technology, medicines and modes of delivery have transformed healthcare.
At the same time, it is being increasingly acknowledged that the progress has been far from uniform and unequivocal. The key issues of healthcare facing us today are:
- Access
- Affordability
- Quality
In short, healthcare has to be available to all, affordable to all and of a quality which benefits the healthcare service seeker.As we all know, these are precisely the issues that healthcare stakeholders across the world are working on, and it is in solving these paradigms that the challenge of modern-day healthcare lies. The WHO adopted “Health for All” as its slogan many years back. It is time to fulfill that pledge.
How can this blog be useful for you and why should you spend your valuable time here? We believe it can be useful, because of the following reasons:
- While researching on healthcare-related issues, we have often found that knowledge resources are not always known/ accessible to all. A person working on Hospital-acquired infections or Facility Management, for example, may not know where to look for relevant information. Hence this forum, which would have broad-based knowledge resources at its disposal. We promise to keep this updated, and also responsive to your requirements. We also invite write-ups from healthcare professionals worldwide on diverse healthcare topics.
- At the same time, we want to provide a platform for healthcare professionals to know each other. Networking is very important in our professional lives, as we all know. We would use the discussions and the linked group in linked. in to connect healthcare professionals.
Knowledge is the nidus for awareness, awareness the catalyst for desire, desire the forerunner of action, and action the harbinger of change. It is with this hope that we dedicate this blog to the worldwide healthcare community. To quote Dr.Bidhan Chandra Roy, “We have the ability and if, with faith in our future, we exert ourselves with determination, nothing, I am sure, no obstacles, however formidable or insurmountable they may appear at present, can stop our progress... (if) all work unitedly, keeping our vision clear and with a firm grasp of our problems.”
Therefore, we invite you to come, collaborate, enrich us with your knowledge and wisdom, grow and help the healthcare community grow in the process. Let us join the dots that constitute the healthcare spectrum worldwide.
Wishing you a Happy Doctors’ Day once again.
Warmest regards
Dr. Abhimanyu Bishnu
(Head of Quality & Sr Mgr- Medical Operations & Quality,
Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital, Pune)
on behalf of Healthcare Excellence Group
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