Public health care struggles for a cure

Recent incidents of lapses in private hospitals have raised questions over quality of healthcare

In the first of a three-part series, Business Standard takes stock of the public health care system.
 
The capital’s G B Pant Hospital has become a familiar place for Baghpat’s Sunita Kumari (name changed to protect identity). She travels almost 50 km to reach the hospital from her home in Western Uttar Pradesh twice a month to get her sister treated for a heart ailment.
 
This has been their routine for the past three years.
 
Kumari decided to consult doctors at this Delhi hospital after months of failed attempts to receive quality care at primary health centres