Gender Bias in Healthcare: A leaphole in the Society

Recently, 32 year old Priya Sharma from a small village in Uttar Pradesh went into labour at home. Her contractions very strong and she begin bleeding very heavily. Her family rushed her to the nearest public health centre but the facility had no functioning healthcare for her. She had lost too much blood and eventually died from severe hemorrhage. 

Her death was not something isolated but rather a result of sidelining women's health. Although many National programs such as Janani Suraksha Yojana have been initiated yet many women arrive at empty door steps. There is a very deep rooted gender bias in medicine. For decades the male body has been treated as the 'default' and the women's pain is dismissed as something related to stress or being to emotional. As a result the women's medical needs are completely overlook and their treatment is delayed due to weight the outcome is often deadly. 

Moreover all the legal barriers around the reproductive care add more risk to women's health. Across the globe many pregnant women in medical emergencies organised to get an abortion due to the legal policies. The damage is more than the physical strain. Women who survive such neglected emergency is are left with deep psychological wounds. This suffer from a long term lasting trauma and the build a lack of trust in the health care system. And in time of need they do not approach the healthcare at all and suffer the consequences in private. 

The authority must address this leap hole in the healthcare structure. Women must be provided with some legal protections that ensure proper reproductive care without being exposed to any prosecution. Women's lives are treated as something replaceable and valueless and this must be looked into. 

The choice is ours either we can continue to tolerate a system that lets women die, or we can act decisively to save them. Let Priya’s story be the catalyst that compels us to recognize that no woman is expendable and to commit, once and for all, to care for half the world as if their lives truly matter.





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