ABSTRACT
We drew attention in the last chapter to criticisms of the curative health services provided by the Government. Given the present serious shortage of doctors and other health workers, dissatisfaction is to a large extent inevitable. There are too few doctors to provide the whole population with even a moderate standard of service. There are, in consequence, long queues at the Government dispensaries and outpatient departments and consultations are necessarily very short. And as we have pointed out in earlier chapters, the position is made much worse by the heavy demands for public assistance sickness certificates.
