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How does modern healthcare touch lives?

  Healthcare today is in a state of transition. In the past,  h ealthcare has been a luxury possessed   only  by  the rich and elite of India. Poor people were forced to  visit  government hospitals where massive workload,  lack of proper infrastructure and shortage of health professionals caused enormous frustration. Rural India was massively under served. Lack of basic healthcare in a nearby area caused severe strain on the patients families who had to run from  pillar to post to relieve the grievances of their loved ones. Delay in diagnoses invariably lead to adverse outcomes m anifested by high morbidity and mortality rates.  Many  o f these evils still persist today  on a lesser scale  a nd these are precisely the challenges  face d by the modern healthcare. L et us look at the revolution in  waiting known as modern healthcare.   What is modern healthcare ?   Modern healthcare is difficult to define in a few words. It encompasses all the changes (from