I have contended that this is not entirely unintentional. This is one of the mechanisms used by the ruling class to 'forget' about the vast masses of the suffering people of the country. Health Care Assessibility Health problems cause a great deal of suffering to a very large number of the forgotten people. Only a negligible proportion among them go to the primary health centres and dispensaries. They have to spend substantial amounts of money to gain access to services from both the sectors.
Poor patients have to spend more than the better off ones for obtaining the same services.
Even this information is sufficient to underline the predicament of the people of the country, particularly the forgotten people, in finding ways of alleviating their sufferings. Ironically, their very marginalization in the economic life of the country makes them more vulnerable to various forms of health problems. The specter of rapidly rising population has haunted the ruling class since the early sixties. The increasing numbers, they argued rather naively, will 'eat away the fruits of development'. It was also logical for this class to seek to 'solve' this problem by making use of the law and order machinery to make people accept family planning.