Five actions to turbocharge India’s public healthcare

Given that India is experiencing a fast-paced growth on the back of technological disruption and innovative thinking there is an opportunity to bring the same to solve the public healthcare challenge.

public health sector, public health services, healthcare, Maharashtra healthcare, Pune news, indian express — Government statistics show that community healthcare centres are falling short of specialists and 63 per cent of hospital beds belong to private sector.

India has the world’s second largest population which went from 760 million in 1985 and doubled in size by 2015. This rapid rise in population has not seen an appropriate increase in health services for the population. Budgetary allocation to public health is only 1.2 per cent of the total health expenditure which is far lower than the WHO recommendation of 5 per cent. This lack of funds hits public healthcare infrastructure, lack of experienced medical staff to manage the burgeoning population. Government statistics show that community healthcare centres are falling short of specialists and 63 per cent of hospital beds belong to private sector.