Adopt small govt health institutions: Nadda to pvt hospitals

The Centre today proposed to private health institutions to "adopt" small government-run hospitals and replicate their "successful model", as witnessed at the city's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, in the public sector.
"Models presented by private institutions like Sir Ganga Ram Hospital should be enunciated, elaborated and emulated. And, we want institutions like you to come and 'adopt', may be a small public health institution, and replicate the work done at your places," Union Health Minister J P Nadda said here.
The minister was speaking at the 60th foundation day of the historic Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the national capital.

"This would be the real public-private-partnership, and I am not asking you to do it full time, but as they say, just adopt one small government health institution (hospital etc) and do the same work with same efficiency there, the surgeries, clinical works, among others," he said.
Nadda said his ministry was also "thinking on those lines", and wanted private bodies to be a partner in nation's growth.
The minister, applauding the work done at the Sir Ganga Ram, said, "a non-profit private health institution model like yours should be replicated elsewhere too."

He, however, said that sometimes good work done by health institutions are not "propagated enough".

"I am not saying you should stop work and talk... Work should be the priority but it is also important that you make people around you aware of that work, and that I believe is lacking," he said
"You must sensitise the public representatives and show them how they can be a partner in it and contribute to it," Nadda said.
Chairman of the Hospital's Trust Society, Ashok Chandra earlier said, "We are a non-profit organisation rendering service to the society and therefore we request the Centre to exempt us from service tax."
Nadda, on this issue said, "Though it is not my domain, but I will put your sentiments across to the ministry concerned."

Chandra also said that plan is afoot to expand the scale of the hospital with "new multi-storeyed constructions and state-of-the-art facilities".
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital is a 675-bed multi-speciality state-of-the-art facility in the national capital.
It was founded initially in 1921 in Lahore by Sir Ganga Ram (1851-1927), a civil engineer and leading philanthropist of his times.
After the partition in 1947, the present hospital was established in New Delhi on a plot of land approximately 11 acres. The foundation was laid in April 1951 by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and inaugurated by him on April 13, 1954.