In a recent news it is seen the the IT capital Bangalore is getting itself a Health city from Dr. Devi shetty who is famous for his heart hospital narayan hrudayalaya for its affordable healthcare options for people. Quality healthcare should be affordable and accessible to all because even developed countries like the UK and the US are struggling to meet their people's healthcare needs. Governments should be a health-insurance provider rather than only a healthcare provider, said cardiologist Dr Devi Shetty.
Speaking at the official inauguration of the 3,000-bed Narayana Health City, Dr Shetty said providing the masses access to affordable high-quality healthcare is the health city's objective. And in a country like India where only 20% of the population is insured and the remaining 80% of them give money from their own pocket, So healthcare system in India is in bad shape at the moment. But then do you think these health cities will solve the problems of healthcare in the country? Do share your views on this people.
I think yes...it can solve the problem but then not entirely....but providing healthcare to the masses is the right way to tackle the problem as the report says nearly 80% of them are uninsured and most of them pay their own bills and this will cost more for a patient so with these health cities providing affordable health care interms of all the treatments done under one roof and the patient has no need to run around every where to get the tests done, and in this manner the patients gets better treatment opportunities and also at an affordable price and till now price was a constraint for many as hospitals these days charge exorbitantly...so health cities will solve the problem for now, but reforms from government side is needed to improve the situation.
The healthcities in addition to the will of the regulatoy bodies to ensure that the said heaalthcities offer an affordable health care delivery to common masses can make a difference. Alone the health cities are another means of multiplying money by the haves at the cost of pathetic conditions of govt run hospitals.
Yes , Health cities can bring a change in health care system. Tie ups with insurance sector is needed , public should be educated and a great difference can be seen
A health-city is an integrated centre for clinical and wellness services, medical education and research. There is an immense potential for such healthcare centres. Big Metro cities in India may need about 10-15 hospitals of such magnitude. The business model must be based on volumes, which would reduce the treatment cost compared to other privately-managed big hospitals in the city.It should be set up under the public-private partnership.Apart from providing lost cost high quality medical services, it can also encourage medical tourism and may also attract more cutting edge medical research to be performed.
Health cities can improve health system in the country. Today if we see, on an average minimum 2 persons are patients in one family. And now a days treatment for any desease has become veery costly. And the truth is not every one can think of having high quality healthcare. Hence, there is no option than accepting the truth.
I agree to Ms.Anita Rai that this would be a step towards the goal, it won't completely eliminate the problem.
I experienced a three tier charge system at a huge hospital in Mumbai; A patient was being explained the details that for the same treatment there are three kind of charges depending on patients choice of luxury. It was like 33% 66% & 100%.
Congratulations and thankful greetings to Dr Devi Shetty and entire crew devoted to such a good cause. And thank you Ms.Anita for bringing up the topic of real concern.
I also agree to Dr Devi Shetty’s statement “Governments should be a health-insurance provider rather than only a healthcare provider”. This is good, in the interest of people however a question keeps pinching me and I want to ask everyone; “Should government be responsible for everything?”
People budget for everything right from grocery to clothing to house to car etc. & never budget for health! I believe that we need to work at all levels; educating people, asking government to interfere and make insurance more patient friendly.
These health cities, with concern of economy will certainly help in salvation of the healthcare problems in the country.
First of all, it's an excellent idea.Surely it will help lots of middle class & poor region.But at the same time, it will take more time to access because for every project to get success ,people has to trust this offer.It will take time to reach every human mind.But onething ,I couldn't able to say how much this will be trustable & longlasting because there should not be corruption & no politics.It should be purely mankind service.Then only it will be more worthful.I welcomed it.
I THINK IT IS A VERY GOOD INTIATIVE , BY DEVELOPING THIS HEALTH CARE CITY MAXIMUM PEOPLE WOULD BE BENEFITED . WE WOULD HAVE TECHNOLOGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE SO AS TO TREAT VARIOUS ILLNESSES AND DISEASES . BUT THING OVER HERE IS HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD BE BENEFITTED FROM THIS SCHEME AND THIS INFRASTRUCTURE . IN INDIA ESTIMATE ABOUT 1/3 rd PEOPLE ARE BELOW POVERTY LINE , 1/2 OF THE CHILDREN ARE UNDERWEIGHT , ABOUT 30% OF CHILD DIE BEFORE THEY ATTAIN THE AGE OF 5 YEARS , SO FOR THEM PAYING FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT IS THE LAST THING, PRIME IMPORTANCE FOR THEM IS FOOD , SHELTER , CLOTHING . MEDICAL TREATMENT PROVIDED BY SUCH INSTITUTION WOULD BE NO DOUBT OF GOOD STANDARD BUT MAXIMUM PEOPLE WOULD NOT BE BENEFITTED FROM THIS; ONLY RICH , EFFLUENTIAL PEOPLE WOULD BE BENEFITTED FROM SUCH INSTITUITION AND POOR WOULD BE DENIED FROM THERE RIGHTS . THERE SHOULD BE PUBLIC /PRIVATE PATNERSHIP SO THAT POOR PEOPLE MAY ALSO TAKE BENEFIT FROM SUCH INSTITUTION . I THINK IN DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY LIKE EVERY INDIVIDUAL HAS RIGHT FOR GOOD HEALTH AND ITS GOVERNMENT DUTY TO PROVIDE GOOD HEALTH AND NOBODY CAN DENY FOR IT .
Anita i completely agree to your thoughts and Dr. Shetty is a healthcare leader and visionary. What is very important for all of us to realise is besides the need for urgent addition of infrastructure similar to Narayana Hrudayalaya Health City would be to solve the socio economic divide. It is important to realise that how much does a health city cross subsidise, they are bound by limitations too. What is needed is to create a "money pool" in the form of insurance like rashtriya swastha bima yojana or schemes envisioned by Dr. Shetty like Yeshasvini health insurance and many other insurance schemes currently benefiting immensely to many. In my opinion as a healthcare facilitator the challenges we have to address are bridging the economic divide, free primary healthcare “freely” available, creating infrastructure accessible for secondary and tertiary care like health cities for every state by allowing private players set up shops with greater tax holidays / incentives and making govt. finance health of every citizen like in UK and Canada by significantly increasing its budgetary allocation or becoming an insurer to its people. I hope achieving this would significantly help challenge the grave healthcare situation looming over us.
Without govt. regulations like min no. of mandatory beds for poor,adequate staff n ambulance services,fee regulations etc.,these medi cities will be money making business for developers and health care giants nothing else.
well we must take a look at the international scenario even in countries like america and germany the access to health services is difficult for ex for germany for beurocracy and in amercia the structure of healths sytem is different ! in country like india whre daily wages earned by per person is less than 200 rupees /day then how cna we expect ourselves to pay premium and our govt clearly lacks wil and initiative to improve public healthcare system! but only if govt and and pharmaceutical companies come together then we can expect some good things to happen ,btw personally i also felt wish we cud have some more people like d shety! only then we can actually see this conept of healthy cities sowing in indian ground!
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