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Physiotherapy services in patient care in Bhutan
Physiotherapy and rehabilitative services are an integral part of patient care, but in many developing countries they are not considered a priority and are either not available or not easily accessible to those who need them. Bhutan is one such country where healthcare is provided free of cost to al...
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description | Physiotherapy and rehabilitative services are an integral part of patient care, but in many developing countries they are not considered a priority and are either not available or not easily accessible to those who need them. Bhutan is one such country where healthcare is provided free of cost to all, but as of 2021 physiotherapy services were available only in 26 of 48 hospitals and 19 of 20 districts. The number of physiotherapy professionals per 10,000 population is 1.4 with significant rates of attrition. There is lack of awareness among patients and other health professionals about physiotherapy and rehabilitation services. The country needs to integrate physiotherapy and rehabilitation services into the overall health policy framework and develop proper planning of human resources and infrastructure to meet the current and future demands. |
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spelling | pubmed-84144702021-09-03 Physiotherapy services in patient care in Bhutan Tamang, Monu Dorji, Thinley Hum Resour Health Commentary Physiotherapy and rehabilitative services are an integral part of patient care, but in many developing countries they are not considered a priority and are either not available or not easily accessible to those who need them. Bhutan is one such country where healthcare is provided free of cost to all, but as of 2021 physiotherapy services were available only in 26 of 48 hospitals and 19 of 20 districts. The number of physiotherapy professionals per 10,000 population is 1.4 with significant rates of attrition. There is lack of awareness among patients and other health professionals about physiotherapy and rehabilitation services. The country needs to integrate physiotherapy and rehabilitation services into the overall health policy framework and develop proper planning of human resources and infrastructure to meet the current and future demands. BioMed Central 2021-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8414470/ /pubmed/34479592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-021-00649-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Tamang, Monu Dorji, Thinley Physiotherapy services in patient care in Bhutan |
title | Physiotherapy services in patient care in Bhutan |
title_full | Physiotherapy services in patient care in Bhutan |
title_fullStr | Physiotherapy services in patient care in Bhutan |
title_full_unstemmed | Physiotherapy services in patient care in Bhutan |
title_short | Physiotherapy services in patient care in Bhutan |
title_sort | physiotherapy services in patient care in bhutan |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8414470/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34479592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-021-00649-1 |
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