How The GDP Fall Has Affected The Medical
                     How The GDP Fall Has 
Affected The Medical Sector
The 23.9% GDP fall has left everyone in shambles. An economic downfall due to the spread of 
the Coronavirus and the lockdown was expected, but such a significant fall all the while with the 
constant exponential rise in cases has surely endangered the country’s future. 
A cut down in a quarter of a country’s GDP ensures that every section of it experiences major 
difficulties, be it the cultural section or the professional section. It is interesting to note that in 
the coming recession, as is the case with any recession; many sectors will get hit more hardly 
than others.
But as the pandemic goes on and people sit 
tight waiting for the vaccine, the medical 
sector has to power through all of the 
difficulties it experiences because of the 
GDP downfall. But how exactly will such a 
major fall affect the medical sector?
Well, the substantial areas that have been 
identified are as expected, the most obvious 
ones:
 
The Medical Staff
 
As the pandemic stretches forward with the 
economic crisis, the biggest immediate problems for 
the hospitals would be hiring new medical staff to 
reduce the stress and pressure of the already 
existing staff. It comes as no shock that hospitals in 
India were short-staffed, to begin with, but due to the 
pandemic have reached the highest peak in the staff-
patient ratio. 
The economic crisis will lead to severe inadequacy in 
medical workers and nurses in Indian hospitals as 
hospitals will tend to hire the minimum workers 
possible, overworking the existing staff which may 
lead to a total medical disaster. The hospitals will be 
forced to hire fewer workers and pay them even less 
than before as a means to survive the recession. 
The Equipment
 
If there is no substantial influx of money, hospitals would 
have to cut down on their expenditure in the field of 
expansion and maintenance as a hospital is also a private, 
money-making business. Private hospitals would stretch 
out on older, less advanced equipment as much as they 
can instead of updating their machines with the 
technological advancements that come out on the market 
to cut costs.
This would also mean that in addition to having a medical 
sector that is already subpar at best when compared to its 
international counterparts, whatever growth and 
momentum that the Indian hospitals were able to build 
before the recession would be lost. Indian hospitals would 
then sink even further, providing worse than before care 
for its patients.
The Government Hospitals
 
Private hospitals would want to cut down costs in a lean 
and mean way, however, government hospitals in India 
already have been cut down without the pressure of an 
economic crisis. So the ill-equipped, extremely burdened 
government hospital will become even more ill-equipped 
and overburdened due to the recession, leading to many 
people in India who depend on the government for basic 
healthcare to be disappointed even more than they 
already have. 
 
Patients will enormously overwhelm the thin strand of 
doctors and medical staff and people who don’t have 
access to adequate medical care will continue to not have 
access to adequate medical care; their numbers growing 
tremendously larger by the second.
The Doctors
If we look at the big picture, an economic crisis/ recession will 
attract people towards skill-based jobs or jobs that don’t require 
the investment of a large amount of capital. It is impossibly 
expensive to achieve the title of a practicing doctor for a person 
with a weak financial background, that too in a recession. With 
less and fewer jobs for doctors in both the public and private 
sector and a never-reducing medical fee structure, it is not 
crazy to think that a person who doesn’t come from a family of 
doctors would opt for an MBBS degree due to the insane 
hurdles they’d have to jump through.
But what’s dangerous is that due to fewer jobs being available 
for doctors due to an economic crisis and people opting out of 
the field due to huge amounts of fees, it will result in a lesser 
number of medical graduates per year. This in turn would circle 
us back to the shortage of staff that hospitals in India have been 
facing since the dawn of time.
 
What’s The Solution?
 
It is a pretty big problem, a problem for which one 
particular solution will never be fully correct. But the best 
direction to go from now would be for the government to 
take hold of its most important internal affairs: Education 
and Employment. 
 
Meticulous planning is required to reel us out of this 
economic crisis, one that can only be achieved by 
reinventing our education and subsequent employment of 
the workforce. But it’s good news to see that dynamic and 
more modern policy changes are being observed in the 
department of education. Let’s hope it is followed by 
polishing up our employment sector so that we can power 
through both the pandemic and the recession. 
 
 
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