The case for collaborations in healthcare ANDREW MYBURGHRAJU NARAYAN|JANUARY 29, 2024 © 2024 The World Bank Group,

The case for collaborations in healthcare ANDREW MYBURGHRAJU NARAYAN|JANUARY 29, 2024 The need for public-private collaboration in health care was neither well understood nor widely embraced until the COVID-19 pandemic, when health systems faced huge demands. Even now, many still believe that during the pandemic, government hospitals served the general population while private-sector doctors catered only to the rich, who could afford them. The reality is far from it. The private sector stepped up and provided critical COVID-19 testing and treated many patients, including the most sick who needed treatment in intensive care units, especially in less-developed economies, where governments faced severe constraints in resources, knowhow, and capacity in responding to the crisis. https://blogs.worldbank.org/psd/case-collaborations-healthcare © 2024 The World Bank Group,