Unlike in the US, public health spending in India is relatively low - at 1.4% of their GDP, a percentage that hasn't fluctuated recently. India faces many medical shortfalls, including unlicensed practitioners, also known as quacks. As a recent Huffington Post article recommends, public private partnerships could be beneficial in India, as they have proved to be in Brazil and Liberia. What are your thoughts on this?
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Rachna Shah
Aug 22, 2017
The Private Sector in Indian Healthcare
The Private Sector in Indian Healthcare
This is a very good initiative because in Pakistan our government was facing the same issue of poor public health so the governemt decided to run public hospitals on public-private patnership and now same public hospitals look like private hospital. This approach would definitely revolutionaize the public health system of india.
It's great to hear about the successes of public-private partnerships in Pakistan's healthcare system! How do you view the relatively low percentage of public spending on healthcare in Pakistan?
The most important well being is most neglected in Pakistan like India. The reason is low spending on health care which is only 0.9 pc of GDP. The reason for low spending is primarliy corruption and then arrogance by successive governments civil-military towards health-care system of the country. That's why provincial governemt of Punjab has introduced a new model of public private patnership for health care system of the province. And so far it has given some remarkable results in the pilot phase and soon provincial government would be rolling out this program in whole province.