India Health Progress recently held a round table conference on Making Access to Healthcare a Reality: Role of Stakeholders in Ensuring Continuum of Healthcare. The round table conference was organized in New Delhi to discuss measures to overcome various bottlenecks in providing quality and cost-effective medical services to all.Dr YK Gupta, Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhidelivered the Keynote Address while highlighting the state of affairs and health issues in India.
Healthcare accessibility has to be technologically driven so that good health reaches the remotest of areas in the huge landscape of the country. The preventive aspect of healthcare has to be emphasised with a grassroot change of mindset. An understanding about maintaining good health and lifestyle management needs to be developed. It requires an enormous effort in the right manner to provide accurate, fast and quality diagnosis; and also put an end to sub-standard spurious medicines. Health policies must be implemented besides fresh introductions. A Shake Hand or cooperative approach and an end of the blame game are the needs of the hour to make each and every Indian get access to good health, saidDr YK Gupta, Professor and Health, Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
Besides accessibility, issues related to affordability and quality were emphasised by(Hon) BrigDr Arvind Lal, Chairman, Dr Lal Pathlabs;he stressed that the government must connect with the private sector and work with it in an effective manner to reach out to the masses.Dr Nimesh Desai, Director, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS)affirmed the openness for partnerships by various stakeholders involved as well as prioritising appropriate empowerment of healthcare personnel such as pharmacists, nurses and social workers.
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