‘Make the Rajeev Gandhi Jeenvandayi Yojana available throughout the country’

There is huge gap within the Indian healthcare delivery system. The forthcoming government needs to concentrate on building a quality healthcare delivery structure within the country. My recommendations for the new PM include:

• Tax rebate of at least 10 per cent for healthcare equipment in order to reduce the cost of medical equipment.
• Create more PPP that will be profitable for both the government and the private sector
• Make the Rajeev Gandhi Jeenvandayi Yojana available throughout the country
• The country requires trained medical professionals, especially nurses, doctors and paramedics. In order to fill this gap the PM needs encourage private sector players to introduce post-graduate courses in areas of emergency care, nursing and other specialised spectrum of medicine.
• Also, create medical courses that would train medical professionals in rural healthcare practice

– Dr Ramakant Panda, VC and MD, Asian Heart Institute and Asian Hospitals