Accord national priority status to healthcare: Apollo Hospitals
NEW DELHI: Giving national priority status to healthcare and adoption of universal health insurance are some of the important steps required to boost healthcare delivery in the country, Apollo Hospitals said.
The Budget must acknowledge that quality of healthcare delivery is non-negotiable, it said in a statement.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present the Budget in Parliament on February 1.
"By according National Priority Status for healthcare, the government can signal its intent to put in place an enabling environment that will attract capital - both financial and intellectual, and stimulate the creation of high-quality capacity," Apollo Hospitals MD Suneeta Reddy said.
Several approaches in combination can be used for this - in public-private partnership (PPP) models, or purely by incentivising the private sector with carefully structured tax benefits, she added.
Joining other industry players in the sector, Reddy said: "The payer problem demands urgent attention - we urge the government to adopt Universal Health Insurance at viable rates for all players, and to incentivise the consumers through higher tax deductions for healthcare expenditure and insurance payments".
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