| Aimed at providing standardised healthcare services like deliveries, pre and post-natal care at affordable costs to low income families, LifeSpring initiative is designed in a four-layered social franchisee format. |
| At level-I, Hindustan Latex together with Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust (HLFPPT) will set up a hospital with all the physical infrastructure including equipment and laboratories and rope in private entrepreneurs in medical profession to provide healthcare services at the rates fixed by HLL. |
| At level-II, the private partner will build the hospital at his own cost and adopt the LifeSpring model along with all the parameters determined by the government body. |
| At level-III, there will be clinics across and at level-IV, LifeSpring's healthcare outposts will be set up in villages, to be run by private doctors and NGOs. |
| Terming the initiative as a revolution in the public healthcare sector, P K Hota, secretary, health and family welfare, Government of India, said that HLL was launching two level-I hospitals "" in Hyderabad and Kanpur "" to test the feasibility of the prescribed model. A sum of Rs 3 crore had been spent on these two hospitals and Rs 10 crore more would be released in due course, he added. |
| HLL wants to set up very few level-I hospitals as, according to Hota, the government does not want to create its own assets, but aims at setting up at least 200 level-II hospitals in the next two years. |
| The remaining two levels would be taken up as a movement across the length and breadth of rural India. A LifeSpring hospital would charge Rs 1,500 for ordinary delivery. The consultation fee would be just Rs 50. |
| Speaking on the occasion, M Ayyappan, managing director of HLL, said that though the country had advanced in several healthcare specialties, it was lagging behind in RCH, both in public and private sectors. |
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