Public health care unfortunately has remained in unenviable state.
Amidst this the NITI Ayog (NY) has pitched for public private partnership (PPP) model to improve health services in the country against the back drop of dismal performance of public hospitals at district level.
Despite the State governments spending, hospital services have not improved the way these should.
Economic deprivation in a large segment of population results in poor access to health care.
The pharmaceutical industry, it has become obvious, has been fleecing the people.
The sector needs large funding.
But it is too inadequate for the 125 crore people.
The benefits in a PPP model go to the so-called service providers.
Unless India produces more doctors, whether for the public or private sector, healthcare delivery will not improve.
The number of users at any government hospital is high and so is the workload on the skeletal medical staff, even at medical colleges set up in remote districts of UP, including the VIP district of Kannauj.