The availability of tertiary healthcare facilities in India is skewed heavily in favour of urban areas despite the fact that they are home to less than 30% of the population. According to estimates, almost 70% of the doctors in India are concentrated in urban centres, which enjoy access to almost 65% of the country's hospital beds.
Patients travel long distances, often from rural Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, even West Bengal for a basic facility that is every individual's right - quality healthcare. Often, patients requiring critical emergency surgeries fail to reach the nearest metro cities on time resulting in situations beyond their control. While India's much-celebrated healthcare sector - a hub of medical tourism - receives lofty praise for providing highly affordable world-class care to patients from across the world, it fails to provide millions of its own citizens quality and affordable healthcare. Even as high-quality private tertiary care hospitals have mushroomed in metropolitan cities, small towns in India have remained off the radar of the private sector.
What deters private players from moving to tier III centres is the lack of profitability. With people having limited ability to pay and low penetration of insurance, revenue realization in these areas is naturally constrained. Healthcare services in these areas have to be significantly priced much lower as compared to metros. Here, hospitals have to focus on devising intelligent and innovative cost-cutting measures that provide quality healthcare comparable in standards to metros but at a much lower cost. Basically, a no-frills attached service module works in these regions.
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