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India’s healthcare systems face considerable
challenges, including quality of care, rising costs and insufficient
access for many citizens. 80% of India’s
health care facilities are located in urban/metro areas. While
70% of India is living in semi-urban and rural areas. We need to
bridge this gap by
building and managing hospitals and clinics in semi-urban and rural
areas and bringing health care services where it is needed most. Gap
between innovations and needs of the society is keeping health care
beyond the reach of majority people.
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Free Healthcare
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Affordable Healthcare
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Suryanarayan Murthy
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"Affordable Healthcare"
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In India nearly 30% of the deaths occur due to Cardiac Disease (Heart Problems) When there is a block in the arteries, doctors advise "Stent" which is called Angioplasty which cost anything between Rs.35,000-75,000. The raw material cost is less...
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Dr. Girish nalini
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"Free Healthcare"
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Dear Sudip I agree with you. There has been a rural urban divide and bias was created in providing life saving services. But the misery is not ended there by just generalizing that urban population has all the healthcare facilities. According...
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Ratnakar Naik
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"Affordable Healthcare"
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In my opinion India should offer healthcare facilities to the common at an affordable price may be with a nominal charge. Rather than offering free treatment, govt can provide treatment at minimum charge to the common people, where the hospitals...
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Promote Medical Tourism
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Health care Initiatives and awareness creation
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SUDHIR D BORATE
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"Promote Medical Tourism"
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Yes I do agree upon this idea of Introducing medical tourism to offer affordable and better treatment to the public.
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Biplab Bandyopadhyaya
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"Health care Initiatives and awareness creation"
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Dear Amar, Good thought, needs to mobilize adequate resources, and monitoring the affordability and quality, But question is who will monitor, THE CORRUPT HEALTH ADMINISTRATORS OF CENTRAL AND STATE GOVT, which can manipulate at a bribe ? my idea...
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Ideate: "How India can offer affordable and better treatment to the public?" deleted from your view.
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Improve Govt. Hospitals quality & care
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Reduce hospitalization of patients with high-cost conditions
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kamakshi dubey
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"Improve Govt. Hospitals quality & care"
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I agree with this idea..if govt.hospitals improve their quality standards in terms of hygiene, human relations, etc..then these hospitals will attract good number of patients.Also govt. has enough funds from various sources to bring up the...
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Subhasis Bhattacharya
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"Government becoming health financier"
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Today developed economies like UK Canada have successful healthcare model involving government as its financier and private healthcare delivery as its provider (some cases govt too is a provider). The healthcare costs are dependent on the...
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Kiran Rangarajan
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"Yes"
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PPPs have been successful in several countries around the world and Health has been on the radar for a long long time and countries have successfully accomplished the tasks. In the present, in order to realize success in any PPP effort it is not...
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Sudeep Tarafdar
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May be in few cases it will be good, but for the wider purpose of providing better and affordable treatment in the rural areas its not a good idea. As there is only government hospitals in rural areas, the development of those must be the...
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Debate: "Is public-private partnership in hospitals the way forward to provide affordable treatments ?" deleted from your view.
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Control the Price
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Offer Subsidy
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Mustafa Mahedvi
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"Control the Price"
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This further to Bindu;s argument which I support. Subsidizing the medicine will not help much as they are not available in most of places especially remote areas. The government should implement a strict policy in this regard where substituting...
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Harshad Naik
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"Offer Subsidy"
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The Supreme Court has asked the Central government to formulate a pharmaceutical pricing policy that will bring all essential medicines under price control. Even though price control can be brought in, there is no way to ensure continued...
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Bindu Narayan
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"Control the Price"
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I believe that direct price control is essential in India to reduce the price of the medicines. The government has already issued a list of 74 bulk drugs and fixed the price of all medicines that use any of these bulk drugs as an ingredient. But...
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Fortis Healthcare, India’s second-largest healthcare service provider, plans to come up with a new model of healthcare delivery for tier-II and-III towns. It intends to set up smaller hospitals with a capacity for up to 200 beds, which will provide treatment at nearly 50% less cost than in the present facilities. To ensure viability of the model, Fortis is also looking at halving the investment per bed for such hospitals. For starters, the company will set up two such facilities, one each in the North and the West, by 2011-12 “There’s a huge need to develop quality hospitals for the masses in the hinterland. In fact, India can accommodate hundreds of such hospitals. We have been working on ...
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Pushkar
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I dont think it will be cheaper than any pvt clinic run by individual doctors, instead i think govt should incentivise investment in health sector in rural areas by giving tax sops like those for IT sector ( tax holiday for 10 yrs )& in return ask...
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Dayanand Deshpande
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I believe that this is a good move to extend the health care facilities to tier II & III cities rather than concentrating on the metros. If Fortis can provide the same treatment like in their metro hospitals, at a cheaper cost, than it will be...
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parvinder kumar
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I HAVE QUALITY TO REACH AT PEAK ,
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RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS KINDNESS
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Enjoy each and everyday
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Namrata Chauhan
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"Enjoy Each and every day"
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enjoy each and every day of life it will give you the satisfaction and a mental peace
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Chandra shekhar
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"Enjoy each and everyday"
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In this 21st century human beings have forgot to give time to themselves, this is making them more stressed in their professional life.
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Tina
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"Enjoy each and everyday"
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I agree with you, we should enjoy every moment of our life. That will give you many memorable moments....
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BRMS is a good idea to quckly resolve basic health care needs
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Various objections of IMA and demand to scrap BRMS is genuine.
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Dr Nachiket Palaskar
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"Various objections of IMA and demand to scrap BRMS is genuine."
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Genesis of BRMS is good example of Governments superficial attitude towards helth care. Rural health agencies in India needs complete reformation. Better working conditions and other incentives should be provided to rural doctors in the form of...
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Makrand Bhave
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"BRMS is a good idea to quckly resolve basic health care needs"
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Its a classic case of the system intervening forthe right idea. From whatever I have understood Mr. Paul BRMS is indeed a great idea and particularly the rural areas where "Qualified doctors cannot reach". These certified short term...
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Anita Rai
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"Various objections of IMA and demand to scrap BRMS is genuine."
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Medical Council of India's (MCI) is proposing BRMS(Bachelor of Rural Medical and Surgery) as a step to provide treatment to people in rural areas. But it is not feasible to demarcate the responsibilities of a doctor according to the geographical...
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AMISH
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"Yes"
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Once a doctor friend frmo Mautritius explained to me, you see in a day a dcotor performs 100s of eye surgeries (Intr ocular lens replacements) in a day with bare minimum facilities and sophistication. For the same kind of thing, a western doctor...
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Munshi Ramchand
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"No"
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The number and different types of medicines/drugs that can be bought by the public without a prescription really tells us if indian health care system is good.
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Dr Satish Gosain
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"No"
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Indian health system is reasonable for those who have pocketful of money or for those who are insured. A poor man is still left to a quack. Corporates are interestet to provide services for their profits. Hospitals have special persons to deal...
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