The goal is to bring world-class healthcare to India that is available, affordable and accountable

IUIH brings in world-class healthcare for 400 million Indians, the PPP way

The Indo UK Institute of Health (IUIH) Medicity Programme brings in world-class affordable, NHS-quality healthcare for 400 million Indians. IUIH will contribute to healthcare infrastructure development; management and operations of healthcare facilities for efficiency, economy and quality; capacity building and training; IT backbone and data repositories for access to clinical information; and materials management including supply chains for ready availability of equipment, appliances, medical supplies, etc. The goal is to bring world-class healthcare to India that is available, affordable and accountable.

The Indo UK Institute of Health (IUIH) Medicity Programme was announced as a Joint Statement between the Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi and past Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron on November 12, 2015. The programme involves as investment of $1 billion into Indian healthcare. Aimed at opening 11 institutes across India in partnership with the world’s best healthcare system – the National Health Service (NHS), UK.

IUIH had celebrated its first anniversary in November 2016 at the Indo UK Tech Summit in Delhi inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister of the UK, Theresa May. IUIH celebrated its second anniversary in 2017 by commencing the construction of its IUIH Medicity Nagpur in December 2017.

The masterplan for IUIH Medicity Nagpur has been designed by world-renowned British architect firm – IBI Group. The construction contract for it has been awarded to Larsen & Toubro, one of the leading civil engineering companies.

According to Dr Ajay Rajan Gupta, Group MD and CEO, IUIH, “We have been implementing our plans at a rapid pace. In the first two years, MoUs have been signed with eight Indian state governments, land parcels have been identified in six states, the land has been acquired in three states, foundation stones have been laid in two states and construction work has started in the first state.”

The IUIH Programme is said to be one the world’s largest infrastructure healthcare projects. It is designated for the provision of integrated healthcare facilities to all Indians, and will build a capacity of 11,000 beds, 5,000 doctors, 25,000 nurses and generate direct and indirect employment for over 300,000 Indians. UP to 20 per cent of patients will be given free treatment at IUIH facilities. Each Medicity is planned to include a 1,000 – bed hospital in close partnership with one of the UK’s leading NHS hospitals, nursing college, medical college, training academy, manufacturing units, residential units and commercial space.

“If we desire to do something for India, the time is now, for we have a progressive Prime Minister at the helm. It is his dynamism and vision that drove me to think of a venture of this scale and magnitude,” added Dr Gupta.