 "A villager is treated at the Government Medical Hospital after being injured by the firing from across the India-Pakistan International Border of RS Pura sector in Jammu. (Photo: PTI)")
A public-private partnership (PPP) model by which private players can set up screening and treatment facilities in district health centres to treat four non-communicable diseases is in the last stages of preparation.
So far, government funding to eradicate the non-communicable diseases in question —chronic pulmonary diseases, renal and chronic kidney diseases, cardiovascular diseases and cancer — has accounted for three per cent of the funds allocated for the National Health Mission.
In addition to the above, it was recommended that diabetes be brought in the PPP ambit. The government is looking at a time-frame of five-seven years for a partnership
