Letters: Health care challenge

Kenneth Thorpe’s brilliant interview by Veer Arjun Singh (August 13) should be an eye-opener for private service providers in our health care system. The Centre can only do so much to tackle the gigantic task of putting in place an ecosystem that reaches every nook and corner of India.
 
Health care delivery is abysmally poor not only in the hinterland but also in cities. The problem is so humungous that the government has neither the funds nor the managerial capability to handle the same. Few “centres of excellence” set up by the government in metros are overcrowded and over-burdened