Towards a National Health Policy

Towards a National Health Policy

 The supreme court has given a timely  direction   to the central and state governments regarding  the conduct of sterilisation camps since, considerable number of deaths have occurred due to family planning surgery performed in the sterilisation camps  is India’s population policy has always been women centric. A comparison between  data on tubectomies  and vasectomies proves this point. The attitude of callously treating  the young mothers deaths  in sterilization camps  by giving inadequate monetary compensation is injustice to the families which have been losing  young women leaving  husbands   and young children to manage their households . Education and employment of women have already proved to have reduced fertility rate . But to make these positive steps more effective ,certain other measures like, liberal scholarships for higher education  , more number of women hostels,  easy access to education loans , flexi time, part-time, work from home options and baby care centers in the work campuses are to be provided on a large scale to women. Women , especially rural women are to be educated about the various methods of spacing of children , because sterilization is imposed on them  without giving choices to other means of reducing fertility rate . The Population division of the UN has understood the reason for greater reliance on sterilization and hence  , has noted down the mismatch   between the various  population control measures  in India .