{"id":35533,"date":"2018-10-31T18:01:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35533"},"modified":"2018-10-31T18:01:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:31:34","slug":"a-healthy-partnership-indian-express-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-healthy-partnership-indian-express-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"A healthy partnership (Indian Express, editorial)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/a-healthy-partnership-strengthening-of-public-health-services-must-go-along-with-leveraging-of-private-sector-resources-4803143\/\">A healthy partnership (Indian Express, editorial)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strengthening of public health services must go along with leveraging of private sector resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strengthening of the country\u2019s public health services must go along with private sector resources.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Need for the Public and Private health care partnership:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Community Health Centres report a 65 per cent vacancy rate of specialists since governments are simply unable to attract and retain talent. For example:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recent Gorakhpur tragedy is just another reminder of the tragic consequences ultimately borne by our citizens.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After decades of effort at strengthening our health system, the country is still struggling with the absenteeism of doctors \u2014 ranging from 28 per cent to 68 per cent in different states.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the prestigious AIIMS at New Delhi, there are 1.33 lakh cancer patients seeking care, of which only 36,000 get admitted with the number of beds available for chemotherapy being a mere 36.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The urgency of supply shortage requires the strengthening of public sector while also leveraging private resources and capacities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, the recent Niti-Aayog\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">public\u2013private partnership aims to ensure that district hospitals provide basic services for the diagnosis and treatment of non-communicable diseases at affordable rates or free of cost for those patients for whom the government chooses to cover such costs through insurance or through budgetary grants.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A healthy partnership (Indian Express, editorial) Strengthening of public health services must go along with leveraging of private sector resources. Context: Strengthening of the country\u2019s public health services must go along with private sector resources. Need for the Public and Private health care partnership: Community Health Centres report a 65 per cent vacancy rate of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-healthy-partnership-indian-express-editorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A healthy partnership (Indian Express, editorial)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704672539},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}