Misperceptions of healthcare providers has been identified as one of the major reasons why Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS), which could be a live-saving treatment in diarrhoea cases, is not being prescribed in India for children who suffer from diarrhoea, according to a study.
Published in February 2024 in Science Journal, the study is titled ‘What drives poor quality of care for child diarrhoea? Experimental evidence from India’. The study was conducted across 253 medium sized towns (population between 10,000 and 1.5 lakh) in Karnataka and Bihar to explore the reasons for underprescription of ORS in India.
Among the five authors in the study was Arnab Mukherji, chairperson, Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy and Management at Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore (IIMB). The other researchers were from Pardee RAND Graduate School at Santa Monica, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University at Durham, and University of Southern California in U.S.A.
