Problems and Needs of Georgia’s Primary Health Care

Abstract

The Paper “Problems and needs of Georgia’s primary health care” discusses generally the role of polyclinics and ambulatory clinics in providing the population with medical service and also the problems that hinder fulfilling this mission. It is underlined in the paper that WHO (World Health Organization) recognized the weakness of primary health care and its inability to solve the problems and to improve the shortcomings as one of the perils of global health. This means that this danger is present not only in the public health domain of Georgia but it is especially severe in low-income countries like Georgia. Moreover, the paper discusses all those programs and initiatives implemented by different international organizations and private funds to improve the unfavorable condition of primary health care. The Research conducted on Georgia is discussed in detail and problems and shortcomings of primary health care are named explicitly: Low qualification of staff (mainly doctors), distrust of patients, lack of right motivation, lack of primary health care strategy, careless, superficial attitude of doctors towards the patients and many more. According to the authors, continuous upgrading skills and qualification of doctors (and nurses) should start immediately, right motivation should be established, income of family and village doctors should be increased, doctors should attend the course in psychology, namely, “psychology of safety with the patients” and many more. Keywords: Public Health; Family doctor; Village doctor; weak primary health care; polyclinics and ambulatory clinics; medical service.