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'Eighty percent of medical expenditure spent on twenty percent people' | Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dinesh Trivedi on Friday said eighty percent of medical expenditure in India is spent on twenty percent of people. "This is what is an eye opener, that eighty percent of medical expenditure is spent on twenty percent of the people.
I have no quarrel but that is the reality," said Trivedi. Trivedi further said
that quality of medical services varies with the income of a person, asserting
that this trend should be eliminated by giving equal and fair treatment to people
coming from different financial backgrounds. "We require a different model, which
is not 3P's but 4P's. And the fourth P is people. So what we are talking about
is private, public, and people partnership. And that is what we require," said
Trivedi. Trivedi said the country had to grow out of the Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) to measure development and progress. "GDP could be good but at the same
time very misleading. The country needed a different parameter of calculating
well-being. As per the 2001 figures there is a shortage of about 600,000 doctors
in the country," said Trivedi. "There is also a deficiency of one million nurses
and paramedical staff," he added. Meanwhile, Apollo Group Executive Director (Operations)
Sangita Reddy said telemedicine has helped people access health information. "The
next very important innovation in which we have perfected over the last ten years
is telemedicine, so we have over 120 telemedicine centers and this anyone can
access. If you have an Internet connection you can talk to a doctor. That is the
platform we have built," said Reddy. "It is a web-based platform. It gives second
opinion. Nursing homes, small doctors across the country are using it in an emergency.
So, we believe it is slowly creating a momentum where people realise that technology
can help transform and at least give them access to good health information,"
she added. |
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