State of Healthcare - Solutions

Dear Friends,

Here is a summary of the key solutions identified by you to improve the State of Healthcare in India. If anything of importance in missing, kindly submit it as a comment to the post.

We will compile the whitepaper for submission to the Government.

Thank for your participation!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
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Solutions to improve State of Healthcare

1. Better cleanliness and hygiene should be maintained in government hospitals
2. Emulate British health care system where every citizen has to contribute a part of the salary as social benefits and money is distributed for state and central healthcare system
3. A low premium based Health Insurance Policy covering all citizens of the country and the drive should be in line with opening of bank accounts Jan Dhan type
4. Nationalise all private medical colleges and pay professional salaries and campus residence for all professors and teaching staff
5. More government medical colleges should be opened
6. Affiliation of the colleges charging donation should be cancelled
7. Encourage the big business houses who can afford the huge expenses of running the medical colleges
8. Give free tuition to 50% students if they agree to work for 5 years in rural India on stipend after passing out
9. Consultation fee of the doctors should be fixed by the government
10. Medical representatives visiting the doctors should be made illegal. They should be handled by the admin staff
11. The price list of different medical procedures should be displayed in the hospital premises
12. The working of all the pathlabs should fall under a common law
13. All Medical tests should have maximum standard rates for every state which needs to be approved by a standard govt. body and displayed in every hospital and clinics as a mandatory rule Increase in prices should be allowed only through some governmental body and its approval
14. The licences to the Public Analytical Laboratories should be given after thorough scrutiny and so also their renewal should be thoroughly audited
15. Generic medicines should be easily available on counters
16. A social campaign should be created to educate the masses about medical practices
17. A regulatory body for Professionals (Doctors in this case) beside IMA which is just like Cricket Association leaving no scope for Government to directly intervene
18. Time frame & timely settlement of health insurance claim which may include negligence of Doctors, wrong medicine prescription etc.
19. There must be master agenda to upgrade the overall status of the rural and sub-urban hospitals/health-centres. This will also help the crowd to stay away from the crowded cities
20. Proper supply and honest distribution of free medicines/supports in the hospitals must also be duly taken care of
21. Negligence should be treated sternly