Community medicine: An unutilized branch of health sector by Government of India

Effective administration is very important in any sector for the efficient delivery of services without compromising over the quality.1 General administration of India is efficiently managed by services like Indian Administrative Services (IAS), Indian police services (IPS) etc.but coming to the health sector which is the immediate need of the people after food and shelter is very much neglected. Is it an exaggeration? No, not at all because administrative aspects of health sector in India is managed by people who are not having any idea on health administration. A person trained in community medicine/public health is the qualified person to run the administration services of health sector similar to the role played by IAS, IPS. At present no/very few persons trained in health administration are managing health services in our country. The best quotable example is that No or very few DMHO (District medical officers)/State programme officer (SPO)/District programme officer (DPO) in Andhra Pradesh state of India is a specialist in Community Medicine. If the scenario of a Non Empowered Action Group state is like this then the situation in an Empowered Action Group state can be understood.