The Jammu and Kashmir government today said it will involve the private sector in the health care field in the interest of the people.
"The state government would involve private sector in the interest of patients' care on the terms and conditions set by the government," a spokesman said here today.
The statement came after news report appeared in a section of press about apprehensions expressed by faculty members of Government Medical College Hospital regarding the introduction of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode in the hospital.
As per the report, the faculty members had opposed the private sector taking over the super speciality hospital in Jammu.
The spokesman said Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode in health sector has been conceived for the benefits of patients and doctors attending on them.
At a recently held Task Force meeting on Health & Medical Education Sector chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, it was felt that wherever non-availability of funds will come in the way of installation of machinery for better health care, the government would involve private sector in the interest of patients care, the spokesman said.
The spokesman said it is only a small group with vested interests which has opposed the move on one pretext or the other.
He said under the PPP mode, diagnostic machinery would be used by hospital authorities like their own machinery round the clock and the charges would be determined by the government.
He said the students, faculty and doctors can use the machinery as freely as the facilities owned by the hospital.
