Can health cities improve healthcare system in the country?

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!