PHM-Exch> [PHM NEWS] seeking advice regarding films and videos about health activism (including access to medicines and gender and health issues)

[Vijaya kumar]

Dear Claudio and David,

Greetings!

Pls do find the below links of the videos. One is a larger documentary film
' The Fatal Error and others are video reports and Testimonies.

This is produced by a alumni of IPHU, Vijaya Kumar Seethappa. Will be happy
if this is useful even in small way to the IPHU participants in Savar.


1. A Video Report on a Mobilisation by Dalit Women for Maternal health care
entitlements

Increasing incidence of maternal deaths and poor quality of AN care in
Hyderabad Karnataka region of the state prompted the Jagrutha Mahila
Sanghatan and Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali to undertake a survey in 36
villages under the 7 PHC areas in Sindanoor and Manvi taluks of Raichur
district. The survey led by JMS leaders themselves revealed that a
dysfunctional public health system had been pushing poor pregnant women to
private hospitals for maternal care services. This had led to catastrophic
out of pocket expenses for maternal care services. The total average cost
incurred for AN check –ups and a normal delivery in private sector (without
newborn complications) was Rs.24393. In case of women undergoing c-section,
this cost was Rs. 59259. If the newborn suffered complications then the
cost jumped up to Rs.31201 in case of women who underwent a normal delivery
and Rs. 66067 in case of women undergoing c-section.

In drought-prone Raichur district daily wages had plummeted to Rs.120/- per
day, going down even as low as Rs.100/- during the lean summer months. Even
if one were to assume minimum wage (under MGNREGA) of Rs.236 /- per day per
person as the average wage in the past year, with wage work available on an
average for 6 months in the past year, the annual income of a family with
one earning member would come to Rs. 42480. It is obvious that the costs of
various components of maternal care services have pushed several families
into penury and destitution for health care services that are supposed to
be “free” through various highly touted central as well as state government
schemes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFVDkopOy0g


2. The Fatal Error

Documentary film
Duration: 63mins

Directed by Vijaya Kumar Seethappa

The Fatal Error puts the patient center- stage as it takes an unflinching
look at the government health insurance schemes and reveals the fine print
behind
the promise of free health care for the ‘poor’. Bewildering paperwork,
smart cards, BPL cards and the ‘right’ disease help patients ‘qualify’ for
the
scheme but that’s only the beginning of their struggle as they eventually
find out.

By raising disquieting questions about health insurance and the
government’s interest in pushing them, the film uses health insurance
schemes as a motif to illustrate
the gradual transformation of the government from a protector and guarantor
of citizens’ rights to an active champion and agent of the market and its
privatization project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2kXZCgFA8


3. Video testimony:  This video testimony is part of a series of video
documentation
of health care denials, discrimination and deaths in various parts of
Karnataka, India.

*Malnutrition*

This video testimony is from Chandrabanda Primary Health Centre, managed by
an NGO through PPP model in Raichur district in North Eastern
Karnataka. Successive
governments’ relentless privatization policies -introduction of user fees,
handing over PHCs to NGOs and pursuing wasteful ineffective tertiary care
schemes at the cost of comprehensive primary health care has pauperized the
public health system.  It is families such as this one who bear the brunt
of these policies –deprived of social security measures, paying for health
care from the meager earnings of child laborers and pushed to choose
between having a roof over their heads and saving their child from the jaws
of death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGDW_RPX7RA


*Maternal Delivery Denial*

Karnataka has the dubious distinction of topping the Southern Indian states
for maternal mortality at 144 per lakh live births. Maternal death audits
are not conducted regularly, do not involve local CBOs, lack transparency
and corrective actions are not taken. This testimony illustrates that
merely providing all facilities without ensuring the system’s
accountability to the people will not translate into better health
outcomes.

The nexus between government doctors and private hospitals, hinted at in
the video testimony has presently assumed alarming proportions.

The state government recently made rural service mandatory for all medical
graduates. But unless it bans private practice by government doctors,
enforces a strict code of conduct, strengthens community accountability
mechanisms, women will be caught between the devil and the deep sea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQgeG1gYNrw


*TB death*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-uC-_h1yT0


*Snake Death*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvmeyzKGPXI


*HIV+ve care denial*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khmcYHkHXJU


regards

Vijay



On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 1:22 AM Claudio Schuftan <cschuftan at phmovement.org>
wrote:

>
>
> -From: David G Legge <dlegge at phmovement.org>
>
> The PHM team charged with organising the forthcoming IPHU in Savar (in the
> lead up to the Fourth People’s Health Assembly) are keen to identify good
> videos which illustrate various aspects of health activism in practice
> (including the evidence of needs, the causes of the needs, the analysis,
> strategies and tactics, and the activist orientation and commitment).
>
> We would love to hear from you if you have lists of such films or even
> just one or two or perhaps a really brilliant film which you produced which
> we really need to watch.
>
> The forthcoming IPHU in Savar includes specialist streams dealing with
> Access to medicines and Gender and health and we would be particularly
> grateful for suggestions in these areas.
>
> In solidarity
>
> David Legge
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Vijaya Kumar. S
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