Ideas to make Healthcare Affordable & Accessible – Dr Girdhar J Gyani,Director General, A

  • 25-03-2015 09:32:14
  • Health

The universal health coverage has four characteristics availability, affordability, accessibility and acceptability. As far as availability and accessibility is concerned, India is doing very well now. However, the problem is affordability and accessibility. Acceptability is by the standards. If you want universal health coverage by the government, the fundamental is, the government must spend 50 percent or more money in the healthcare, which it is not doing today. But, thanks to the private sector which is coming in a big way that very soon we will be able to meet this universal health coverage. The World Bank Report which came last month says that 50 percent population of India is being covered under one or the other insurance because many state governments have launched their own insurance schemes.