Year: 2016 | Month: June | Volume 5 | Issue 2
NGOs in Specialised Health Care: A Study of Cachar Cancer Hospital Society of Cachar District of Assam
Aditi Nath
DOI:10.5958/2321-5771.2016.00019.3
Abstract:
Prevention of diseases, diagnosis, treatment of illness, injury in human beings, etc., forms the subject matter of health care. Diseases like diabetes, stroke, cancer, cardiac diseases, renal diseases and so on needs specialised health care services owing to their specific treatment modalities. The Government of India has been trying its best to deliver health care services at the primary, secondary and tertiary level. Tertiary health care services provide specialised and super-speciality health care services which includes cancer management, neurology and neurosurgery, cardiology and cardio-thoracic surgery, nephrology and urology, and a host of other complex medical and surgical interventions. But these specialised and super specialised health care services are often very costly and are beyond the affordability of general population. Moreover, the Government with its limited resources are not able to provide such services to all the needy people. So, the Government took initiative in including various NGOs in providing such type of specialised and super-speciality health care services so as to benefit the needy and the poor. The present paper discusses about such activities by NGOs in the field of specialised health care, citing the example of The Cachar Cancer Hospital Society (CCHS), a NGO which provides specialised health care services in the field of cancer, to the needy and the poor population.
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