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Niti Ayog releases road-map to improve India's health system

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NEW DELHI : The NITI Aayog has prepared a road-map to improve the health sector with a focus on delivery of the unfinished public health agenda, change the health financing way from out of pocket to large insurers, integrate service delivery, empower citizens to become better buyers of health and harness the power of digital health.

The road-map has been outlined in a book titled 'New India: Building Blocks - Potential Pathways to Reforms' which was released by NITI Aayog vice chairman Dr Rajiv Kumar in the presence of Bill Gates, co-chairman of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The book, which is a synthesis of discussions and efforts initiated at a national-level workshop held in 2018, could form the basis of the way forward for India's health sector in the upcoming Vision Document of the NITI Aayog in 2020.

It reveals India’s healthcare system as a story of multiple fragmentations at the level of payers and risk pools, healthcare services and at the digital backbone running it.

The book integrates viewpoints on the concerted efforts required for strengthening the existing fractured health system to meet the challenges that lie ahead of the nation.

‘New India: Building Blocks’ is based on the data collected and provided by ACCESS Health International for the public sector and by PWC India for the private sector.


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