Xsampa

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Creating a better health system; Reforms and upgrades to Xsampan Healthcare
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June 19th, 5611
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Xsampan Healthcare has often been described as "meh". It provided care and ensured Xsampans were taken care of. No one could say the healthcare system was awful, but no one could say it was the best either. Just meh. Opinions have shifted drastically however, since the Bargas Chenpo as the Xsampan Healthcare System was put to its absolute limits and without foreign aid, it is likely that the Xsampan Healthcare System would've been overwhelmed in weeks. As such, there have been vocal calls to reform Xsampan Healthcare and show the world what a fully socialist healthcare system can do. And Comrade Bhutia has heard these calls, and answered them. Reforms are coming to the healthcare system and modernizations.

As it stands, Xsampan healthcare is entirely public and free. All costs paid for by the state. This is to be expected from a socialist state. Yet the biggest issue is of course, manpower. As such, efforts will begin to change this. Particularly with supporting the training and education of upcoming nurses and doctors. Under normal circumstances, higher education is quite cheap. Combined with the state bending over to provide benefits and incentives, higher education is appealing, but for the medical sector? More must be done. As such, the state will cover every fee for students who enter medical education. This will ideally encourage more Xsampans to reconsider the possibility of a career in the medical sector, and it will ensure a constant stream at the very least, of medical workers. Alongside this, a mandate. After graduation, these newly graduated medical workers will immediately be put towards rural or high need areas to ensure constant support around the clock. This mandate will last for 6 months and then, a graduate can decide to stay in their assigned post for good, or transfer to somewhere they prefer. 

And if that isn't available, vocational programs will be available, particularly for medical assistants, lab technicians, and of course emergency responders. This will help ensure competent training and make sure that anyone in the medical centre is beyond adequately competent and confident. To further ensure that our medical workers are actually competent and know what they are doing, efforts will be needed to help ensure that current medical workers have their skills and knowledge up to date. The solution? Continuing education programs, which loops back to vocational education programs.

But like every system, innovation is needed. Old methods may work, sure, but new methods can also work at better rates. This is where a new effort comes in. Lifting the burden on doctors and expanding the abilities of what nurses can do. Expand their training and education to ensure that they can handle things independently without constantly requiring a doctor in sight. This can, and certainly will reduce the burden on doctors, allow for more support in a quick fashion and make the job less stressful. 

Like everything however, more work can be done. And this leads to major scale reforms. The People's Committee of Health will need to begin a focus on collecting medical data, creating public health policies, and studying current trends to ensure a healthy population. Alongside this, the state will need to take a keen interest in the production, or at least the research of vaccines, disease prevention and other treatments. A modern Xsampa requires a healthy society, free of pestilence.

Alongside this, a mandate to every citizen. A vaccine mandate. Each citizen will be mandated to be vaccinated. While previously it was encouraged but ultimately voluntary, it's clear that this approach is backwards. By making it mandatory, it will lead to a stronger healthier population. Furthermore, the state must take the initiative and encourage healthy lifestyles. Whether it be education, taxes on unhealthy food, or what not, a healthy population will do wonders for supporting healthcare. However health does not stop at the physical level. Mental health is just as important for any developed nation, and Xsampa is no different. Workplaces and schools will have mental health care supported, encouraged and embedded. A mental health crisis not only is unethical to tolerate but pragmatically, it hurts the nation in a plethora of ways.

Alongside this, telehealth. This initiative will allow patients who are unable to physically meet their doctors, or patients in rural areas connect to their doctors virtually and receive basic care that way. This will help ensure that rural areas and those with a more unorthodox living standard are able to receive care. Alongside this, all medical records will be digitalized. This is only natural as it ensures patient history is not lost, kept up to date and simply makes things run more efficiently.

These efforts will ultimately help pave the way for the Xsampan Healthcare System to show it's worth to the world, and improve healthcare in Xsampa, especially in a post Bargas Chenpo Xsampa.
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