Advantages And Disadvantages Of Clinics In Hospital

INTRODUCTION A clinic is a health care facility that is primarily devoted to the care of outpatients. Clinics can be privately operated or publicly managed and funded, and typically cover the primary health care needs of populations in local communities, in contrast to larger hospitals which offer specialised treatments and admit inpatients for overnight stays. Some clinics grow to be institutions as large as major hospitals, or become associated with a hospital or medical school, while retaining the name “clinic."

1 Associate professor, Post graduate and Research Department of Economics, Ethiraj college for Women, Chennai- 600 008 2 Ph.D Full-Time Research Scholar, Post graduate and Research Department of Economics, Ethiraj college

This is part of an initiative to outsource medical services by the Corporation. According to the new proposal, private doctors in neighbourhoods will be permitted to use the hospital buildings of the Chennai Corporation to offer free medical services in such evening clinics. “Over 30 per cent of the doctors’ posts remain vacant. New doctors are reluctant to join Chennai Corporation hospitals. So we will outsource it to private agencies who will manage doctors at the clinics,” said the official. Pharmacists and nurses at the hospitals will however be managed by the Chennai Corporation with medicines also being supplied free.

This paper deals with the private health care clinics which are helping the middle income groups for their primary needs.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

1. To find out the reasons for people visiting clinics.

2. To measure the service quality of health care clinics.

METHODOLOGY

The study was conducted with 50 respondents. Random technique was adopted for study. For sample 50 clinics were visited and primary data were randomly collected using ‘Questionnaire Method’. The study also focuses on Secondary data collected from various books, National & International Journals, publications from various websites which focused on private health care

33 of them told attenders are available, for small ailments and first aid purposes treatment is good. Patient’s crowd is less compared to hospitals. 30 of them answered there is good sanitary facility is available in the clinics. Lastly, Income plays a dominant role in visiting clinics, that is 40 people says that middle income people are visiting this type of clinics for their health care needs.

PRIMARY DATA ANALYSIS

1. Reason for people visiting clinics. Chi-square test is used to find whether there is any difference between the Reasons to visit clinics and Gender. Reasons to Visit clinic

Gender

Convenient First aid Familiarity of doctors Total

Male 5 10 7 22

Female 7 15 6 28

Total 12 25 13 50 Source: Primary data collected

NULL HYPOTHESIS: There is no significant difference between the Males and Females regarding the purpose of visit to clinics.

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS: There is a significant difference between the Males and Females regarding the purpose of visit to clinics.

Observed Frequencies Expected frequencies (O-E)2/E

5 5.28 0.015

10 11 0.090

7 5.72 0.286

7 6.72 0.012

15 14 0.071

6 7.28 0.225 Total 0.699

Degrees of freedom =(r-1) (c-1) = (2-1) (3-1) = (1) (2) =