Budget 2014 wishlist: Dr Rajeev Boudhunkar, VP, Kohinoor Hospitals
The thrust areas suggested for the new government are as under:
- Improve health equity
- Adopting a system centric approach rather than a disease centric approach
- Increasing survival
- Taking advantage of local enterprises for solving local health problems
- Preventing indebtedness due to expenditure on health/protecting the poor from health expenditure
- Decentralising governance
- Establishing e-Health
- Improving access to and utilisation of essential and quality healthcare
- Increasing focus on health human resources
- Focusing on neglected and excluded areas eg care of old age patients
- Enhancing efforts at disease reduction
- Providing focus to health system and bio-medical research
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