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Key challenges
- Covid has highlighted the need for adequate infrastructure and health care workforce, especially doctors and nurses
- High out-of-pocket expenditure on health
- Threat of resurgence of Covid can prevent foreigners coming to India resulted in hospitals suffering from revenue loss and lower profitability
- While the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna covers 500 million population, around 400 million is still uncovered
- Import of medical devices and equipment
- Providing technical access to care
Industry ask
- Incentivise creation of adequate infrastructure to deal with the triple disease burden
- Mandate PPP in other clinical procedures and hospitals
- Implement single window clearance
- A dedicated fund for healthcare start-ups
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First Published: Wed, January 25 2023. 23:20 IST
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