"Workforce shortages and uneven distribution of doctors, nurses, specialists and allied health professionals plague the sector," NITI Aayog said while observing that urban areas have four times as many doctors and three times as many nurses as compared to rural areas.
It is not uncommon to hear the oft-quoted (and tired) phrase, “The youth are the leaders of tomorrow” being spouted at public gatherings blandly stated in policies and used in a multitude of reports/articles/documents. The numbers point in that direction: India is now home to more than 365 million young people in the age bracket of 10 – 24 years, with a growing youth population (15-24 years). But there is work that needs to go in for this demographic to truly actualize itself.
The Fifteenth Finance Commission (XVFC) led by the Chairman N.K. Singh, on 19 December 2018, held a meeting on with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare including the Union Minister of Health J.P. Nadda, Ministres of State, Health A.K. Choubey and Anupriya Patel.
Insurance companies witnessed a slew of regulatory changes in the sector in 2018. These included changes in the product structure in life, health and motor insurance products that impacted the way these features were structured in the policy.
As public health is a state subject, central welfare schemes can be run through it, making it easier to implement a GST Council for healthcare and espousing the cause of co-operative federalism
The Indian pharma industry has been acclaimed for its rapid growth in the decades and is expected to reach the US $ 100 billion by 2025. The industry clearly owes its success to its bold, ambitious approach, history of innovation and ability to constantly adapt to the global market.
India is set to increase its public health spending to 2.5 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) by 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, asserting that women, children, and the youth will continue to remain at the heart of every policy, program, and initiative of the government.
India's public healthcare system is sick. Modi govt’s Ayushman Bharat the “world’s biggest healthcare programme” looks good on paper but there are many factors which make its implementation uncertain.
Indu Bhushan is at the helm of what is pegged as the world'smost massive government-funded health scheme – Ayushman Bharat , which provides health coverage to well over ten crore families in India.
What is common between these two very different settings: sitting in a moving aeroplane and having a surgery done in an operation theatre? Well, both are highly complex, man-made environments that their end-users are hardly aware of. These environments are operated by highly skilled technical teams that carefully monitor several parameters on a real-time basis and do the needful to give a good experience to its users.
There were as many as 900,000 "preventable" unplanned Caesarean section (C-section) deliveries out of 7 million in private hospitals in India in one year, driven mainly by "financial incentives," says a study by Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad.
The Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), touted as the world's largest government funded healthcare programme, turned two months old last week and it has notched up quite an impressive record in that short span. According to the National Health Agency, over 3.4 lakh beneficiaries have been treated under the scheme.