What are the problems in Indian health sector?
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India’s healthcare scenario seems to be at crossroads, where there are some positive achievements on the health indicator, but suffers some serious shortcomings in care delivery. The country has been successful in eradicating polio, reducing epidemics caused by tropical diseases and controlled HIV to a large extent. However, it still faces a huge economic burden due to NCDs, struggles to balance accessibility, affordability and quality and is unable to hike public health budgets.
In order to strengthen healthcare delivery and improve business prospects, policy makers, healthcare providers, business leaders, technology providers and pharma companies will need to device strategies that transforms a spark into a sustainable fire. Here are insights from healthcare leaders that can lead India towards a healthy tomorrow.
The current scenario
Amidst the efforts going on, there are several challenges in the current state of healthcare in India, according to Raviganesh Venkataraman, CEO, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals. Some of these include inadequate reach of basic healthcare services, shortage of medical personnel, quality assurance, inadequate outlay for health and most importantly insufficient impetus to research. Since the magnitude of these challenges is significant, these cannot be resolved by the government alone. The key is to get the private sector to participate, while the government continues to invest and enable, he further says.
He suggested that use of decision support systems and technology is critical to solve issues. “When we have limited resources and limited supply of skilled caregivers, it is necessary to find ways to use technology to maximise their throughput without sacrificing on quality and outcomes. Technology can play a big part in this, it is the best way to achieve the vision of a connected healthcare ecosystem. Medical devices in hospitals/ clinics, mobile care applications, wearables and sensors are all different forms of technology that are transforming this ecosystem. Along with technology, by adding an analytics layer to this, caregivers can provide a much better analysis of the condition and recommendations to the patient,” Venkataraman points outs Dr Ashutosh Raghuvanshi, MD and CEO, Fortis Healthcare shares, “On one hand, we face an ever-increasing need for quality and accessible healthcare, the double burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), inadequate healthcare infrastructure and lack of skilled resources that add to the burden of providing quality care to the patient; on the other, our doctors are globally recognised, and India is the chosen destination for international patients with often incurable disease conditions, who find the right medical solutions in India. With the launch of Ayushman Bharat — PMJAY in 2018 (world’s largest government healthcare scheme), 50 crore marginalised beneficiaries have an opportunity to get access to hospital care. Additionally, healthcare in India, particularly the hospital and medtech space is set for growth and innovation through FDI and
PE funds.”
In his opinion, the biggest challenge the healthcare sector is facing currently is the shortage of skilled medical workforce. He informed, “There is one government doctor for every 10,189 people in India, whereas the WHO recommendation is 1:1000. Although, six states in India like Delhi, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Goa have more doctors than the WHO norm, it is a highly imbalanced picture and most of them are unwilling to move to Bihar or Uttar Pradesh (UP), the states that suffer from an acute shortage of doctors. There needs to be a system where we can focus on skilling and upgrading medical workforce skills in the needed geographies. Here, the private sector can play a vital role in the skill development of doctors, nurses and health workers.”
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