The delivery of health care in rural regions presents numerous challenges, both of which have a profound impact on the health status of individuals living in rural regions. Among the challenges that rural context faces are the issues of restricted accessibility to clinics and medical centers, shortage of human capital in the form of physicians and nurses, and poor physical infrastructure.
The most obvious is the lack of health centres and clinics as effected below; As for rural regions, they generally involve a reduced number of healthcare facilities, including hospitals and clinics, with the result that people living in such areas frequently lack access to important medical services. These often means that these facilities are located far; thus, patients may not receive their treatments on time or may even worsen their health.
One of the other areas that may be of vital importance is the scarcity of heath care personnel. There is also a major problem of the availability of qualified human resources within the rural areas cut across common doctors, nurses as well as specialists. The shortage is also due to the poor motivation offered to health care personnel that serve in remote areas of the country thereby leading to over working of the existing staff and sometimes no proper patient attendance or care at all.
Lack of markets is another issue that contributes to the rate of impoverished students in the United States. The Rural facilities virtually lack adequate modern medical equipment and technology hence are unable to offer a range of services. Also, poor internet coverage slows down the advancement of telemedicine, which could be of great help to the needy in getting medical attention.
In order to counterbalance all these challenges the following solutions can be put into practice. The call for enhanced funding on health care for the rural population cannot be overemphasized. It may promote the enhancing of the facilities, procurement of the efficient equipments and the rewards of the staff’s in the overpopulated rural health settings. Moreover, the expansion of tele-solutions also serves a purpose in improving access since people can consult doctors remotely and avoid long trips.
Other solutions include community health programs; in addition to having traveling clinics pursues health care services to people in the regions by reaching out to the stick populations in the remotest areas.
Therefore, I assert that solving problems in rural medical care require level financing, popularization of telemedicine, adoption of CHWs, etc. That is why with help of these solutions, it is possible to succeed in increasing the access to healthcare services and the health status of people living in the rural areas.
