The existing health care delivery system is outdated and needs to be reformed to make it people-friendly. In rural areas, for lack of health centres, the only alternative is the traditional methods which needs to be properly developed to meet the needs. Specific areas which need immediate attention are women's and children's health. Gender-bias is prevalent. Children in rural areas are undernourished.
Weak mothers produces weak babies who develop various diseases at later stages.
These figures are not correct. In most villages, the pipe-line is rusting away with not a drop of water. The roads in most of the villages remain untarred. Apart from those which are near the towns, the interior villages still have no approach roads linking it to the towns. Transportation of patients to the major hospitals becomes a difficult task.