Each hospital bed be brought under Health Insurance Scheme:Modi(Video)

Ahmedabad, 3 January 2014

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today stressed on the need to bring each hospital bed under Health Insurance Scheme for each and every patients admitted to the hospital be naturally covered under the scheme for qualitative improvement in the healthcare.

Inaugurating the global summit of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin here, he said there is need to create widespread awareness about Preventive Medicines, as well as India’s traditional systems of medicine. There is great possibility of promoting India’s herbal medicines and studying aura, about its vast knowledge about Holistic healthcare.

He said the technology-driven system of super specialty medical treatment of the West may provide temporary relief, but is prohibitively costlier and cumbersome. About 4-crore poor in India, who could not afford costly medical treatment, are pushed into debt every year.

Mr. Modi said it is also high time to discuss comparative advantage of ‘health assurance’ over ‘health insurance’. He said that Gujarat has developed a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model for health sector. He stressed the need for updating medical sciences and human resource management for the health sector.

The function was attended by a large number of famous doctors, medical specialists and health experts.