Sam Pitroda, advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations has urged healthcare professionals to create a road map for covering universal heath. The main aim to create road map is to focus on improving existing health institutions and infrastructure especially in rural areas, strengthening human resources by having more doctors, nurses and paramedics, using ICT to create a health information network, giving due attention to traditional forms of medicine and practices and encouraging innovation to foster home grown solutions and business models.
At the FICCI HEAL 2012 Conference on ‘Universal Healthcare: Dream or Reality?’ Sam Pitroda said, “A great deal of work needs to be done in addressing the challenge of upgrading and modernising India’s Primary Health Centres and medical facilities in rural areas in the next 10 years. Unless we do this, our dream of achieving universal health cover will not become a reality.”
Pitroda further added, “I am a firm believer in low-cost solutions for common ailments that afflict millions of Indians and there is therefore a need for marrying the advances in modern, western system of medicine with India’s traditional medicine.”
The Indian healthcare system, he said, is riddled with problems of corruption, bureaucracy, procedures, and above all of attitudes. “We have all the expertise and the capability and are making huge investments in healthcare. Yet, we fail in execution of schemes and programmes” that will ultimately reach healthcare to the bottom of the pyramid, he pointed out.
At the FICCI HEAL 2012 Conference on ‘Universal Healthcare: Dream or Reality?’ Sam Pitroda said, “A great deal of work needs to be done in addressing the challenge of upgrading and modernising India’s Primary Health Centres and medical facilities in rural areas in the next 10 years. Unless we do this, our dream of achieving universal health cover will not become a reality.”
Pitroda further added, “I am a firm believer in low-cost solutions for common ailments that afflict millions of Indians and there is therefore a need for marrying the advances in modern, western system of medicine with India’s traditional medicine.”
The Indian healthcare system, he said, is riddled with problems of corruption, bureaucracy, procedures, and above all of attitudes. “We have all the expertise and the capability and are making huge investments in healthcare. Yet, we fail in execution of schemes and programmes” that will ultimately reach healthcare to the bottom of the pyramid, he pointed out.
Source:Pharmabiz
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