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'Make India a centre for Medical Tourism'
New Delhi: Planning for the medical infrastructure and India's global representation is likely to come on the top during the 3rd India Health Summit, which is being organised by CII National Committee on Healthcare and Indian Healthcare Federation on November 21 and 22 under the theme "Universal Healthcare: India Challenges. "Five years back, CII Healthcare Committee was formed with an agenda to attain a certain target of rural and urban healthcare sectors in our country by the year 2012. So this is a time, where we can access our achievement in healthcare sector and estimate what will be needed to reach our target," said Dr. Naresh Trehan, Chairman of CII National Committee on Healthcare. While addressing a pre-event press conference here Trehan said, "Over the last few decades India's large public infrastructure and national disease control programmes have succeeded in eradicating major diseases. There is also a significant improvement on our key health indicators - life expectancy, infant mortality, health & hygiene and morbidity besides the control of TB, Malaria and AIDS." "Though the Indian Healthcare has made rapid strides in recent years both domestically and in Global markets, it is not what could have been achieved. India spends 5.7% of its GDP on Healthcare, out of which Government spends 0.8 per cent. We are still behind many countries, which had started with us. That's why we are emphasising on combined effort of Government and private sectors in the right direction," he said.
As
per the theme, organisers are focusing on the challenges in providing
universal healthcare. They said, this is the stated objective of the 2002
National Health Policy, which aims at providing acceptable standards of
good health to the general population. It seeks to achieve this by upgrading
the existing infrastructure, establishing new infrastructure in deficient
areas and improving access to the public health system. "We are focusing
on global representation of India in this sector. Also we feel some uncomfortabity
with the word 'Medical Tourism", being used very frequently now a days,
as it dilutes the seriousness of subject. So, through the 3rd India Health
Summit, which is being organised by CII National Committee on Healthcare
and Indian Healthcare Federation on November 21 and 22 under the theme
"Universal Healthcare: India Challenges", we would like to introduce a
new term 'Medical Value Travel' in place of 'Medical Tourism'," said,
Harpal Singh, who will be chairing the summit. With India gradually emerging
as a great Healthcare Hub due to its state-of-art tertiary care hospitals
and our outcomes at par to most developed countries is now in a position
to offer quality healthcare delivery at competitive costs as compared
to the west. Last year, the 2nd India Health Summit with the theme Emerging
Healthcare Opportunities in India had highlighted the issues and opportunities
of the Indian healthcare sector. The summit also had focused on the role
that the sector has to play in providing quality health for all.
-Nov 17, 2005
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