Rapid survey highlights lack of access to free medicines in Karnataka government hospitals
1 year, 7 months ago

Rapid survey highlights lack of access to free medicines in Karnataka government hospitals

The Hindu  

A rapid survey by Sarvatrika Arogya Andolana Karnataka, has found that patients visiting government hospitals are spending an average ₹433 per visit out-of-pocket to buy medicines. The survey done through oral enquiry with 600 patients in pharmacies outside government hospitals in 12 districts, found that overall these patients had spent ₹2,58,809 on buying medicines during the survey period from July 1 to July 19. Mr. Saligram demanded that the government should take concrete steps to effectively implement free access to medicines in its true spirit on the lines of Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation. While Ms. Nisha Gulur demanded that the government should provide nutritional support to HIV and Tuberculosis patients, members - Karibasappa and Shanthamma - said the government should end privatisation of health care through Public-Private-Partnership.

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Health Gets 30 per Cent More Funds Than Last Year: Minister
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Health Gets 30 per Cent More Funds Than Last Year: Minister

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Health Minister Satyakumar Yadav has said five multi-specialty hospitals are being constructed in tribal areas at a cost of Rs 50 crore each. The minister thanked the state assembly for sanctioning a budget grant of Rs 19,264 crore for medical and health, and noted that this was 30 per cent more than the budget allocations for health from the …

Karnataka health sector likely to get bigger slice of budget pie this year
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Karnataka health sector likely to get bigger slice of budget pie this year

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Health, a key sector in the state budget, received 4 per cent of the total allocation in both 2023 and 2024. However, this time, the allocation is likely to increase, with expectations of higher funding for healthcare infrastructure, medical services and public health programmes. This year, the health department began setting up critical care hubs in every district, while …

Hospitals directed to ensure free medicine availability
1 month ago

Hospitals directed to ensure free medicine availability

Hindustan Times  

The Punjab health department on Monday directed the civil surgeons to ensure that the patients visiting the government healthcare centres receive all the medicines prescribed by the doctors therein. Besides, the health facilities have been instructed to display at least two flex boards prominently, highlighting the toll-free number where patients can lodge complaint in case a doctor prescribes a medicine …

Kerala Budget: Not a substantial allocation for health care sector
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kerala Budget: Not a substantial allocation for health care sector

The Hindu  

The outlay of the State Budget presented by Finance Minister K. N. Balagopal in the Assembly on health care, which excludes health-related expenditure such as water and sanitation, is around ₹3,000 crore, which accounts for 1.74% of the proposed total government expenditure. The issue of poor government spending in the health sector had been plaguing the public health-conscious State like …

Right To Health/Medical Care A Fundamental Right, Enforceable Through Corresponding Obligation On State To Create Facilities: Karnataka HC
2 months ago

Right To Health/Medical Care A Fundamental Right, Enforceable Through Corresponding Obligation On State To Create Facilities: Karnataka HC

Live Law  

The court thereafter directed, " Respondent No.2-Department of Health and Family Welfare, State of Karnataka, shall constitute a three member Committee headed by the Secretary, Department of Health, to continuously oversee and implement the mechanism to ensure the providence of medical facility and medical infrastructure including the medical and para-medical personnel at all levels-City, District and Rural". Following which it …

Karnataka CM directs Medical Education Dept. to conduct study to identify reasons for rise in cancer cases in State
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Karnataka CM directs Medical Education Dept. to conduct study to identify reasons for rise in cancer cases in State

The Hindu  

With a rise in the number of patients suffering from cancer receiving treatment in hospitals, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday instructed Medical Education Department officials to conduct a study to identify the reasons for the increase in the number of people suffering from the disease in the State. work review The Chief Minister reviewed the progress of the various government-run …

Kerala spends highest out-of-pocket expenditure on health in India
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Kerala spends highest out-of-pocket expenditure on health in India

New Indian Express  

KOCHI: Increased incidence of lifestyle diseases and high cost of diagnostic tests, coupled with the disappearance of not-for-profit hospitals and people’s reluctance to opt for government medical institutions have pushed Kerala’s out-of-pocket expenses in healthcare to the highest among states, a recent survey has revealed. As per the Comprehensive Annual Modular Survey 2022-23 by the National Sample Survey Office under …

Forum for Good Governance writes to CM about costly medicines in government-run hospitals
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Forum for Good Governance writes to CM about costly medicines in government-run hospitals

The Hindu  

Despite government initiatives like free medical aid and Rajiv Arogya Sree insurance, patients in Telangana hospitals like Gandhi and Osmania face a peculiar situation. In their letter, the president of the forum M. Padmanabha Reddy said that while consultations are free, prescribed medicines are often unavailable in government pharmacies, forcing patients, especially those from weaker sections, to buy them from …

Alleviating the scourge of private healthcare
2 years, 3 months ago

Alleviating the scourge of private healthcare

The Hindu  

India ranks poorly on multiple health financing indicators. Public health insurance schemes have often been reproached for imposing unreasonable package rates on empanelled private providers with a weak regard for actual costs of care. For instance, some countries like Canada have conceived regional health boards that organise care equitably within regions, exploit economies of scale, and bring down healthcare costs. …

Ayushman Bharat-Arogya Karnataka does not fully deliver on promised assurance of health coverage
2 years, 5 months ago

Ayushman Bharat-Arogya Karnataka does not fully deliver on promised assurance of health coverage

The Hindu  

Four years after the Ayushman Bharat Arogya Karnataka, the State’s flagship health assurance scheme, was launched, easy access and free treatment during emergencies still eludes people. Most private hospitals are not keen on empanelment citing “low-package rates”, fixed by the government for the 1,650 procedures covered under the scheme. Prasanna H.M. president of Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association said …

Andhra Pradesh\'s health reforms package costs Rs 16,225 crore
2 years, 6 months ago

Andhra Pradesh\'s health reforms package costs Rs 16,225 crore

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Jagan Reddy said in the state assembly on Tuesday that the government is spending Rs 16,225 crore through the Nadu-Nedu on medical and health reforms, so as to provide best services to the public. He said the government was also spending Rs 12,268 crore for the establishment of 17 new medical colleges. Jagan said, “YSR Village Clinics …

577 private hospitals in Karnataka get notices over extra cost collected from COVID patients
2 years, 7 months ago

577 private hospitals in Karnataka get notices over extra cost collected from COVID patients

The Hindu  

Notices have been issued to 577 private hospitals by the Health Department following complaints that they received money from the government while collecting extra amount from COVID-19 patients. Under the Ayushman Bharat-Arogya Karnataka scheme, steps were taken to treat COVID-19 patients in private hospitals on referral basis. But some private hospitals, besides collecting the amount from the patients, also got …

Doctors’ shortage: pharmacists in Odisha hospitals allowed to prescribe drugs for some ailments
3 years, 6 months ago

Doctors’ shortage: pharmacists in Odisha hospitals allowed to prescribe drugs for some ailments

The Hindu  

In a bid to overcome difficult situations due to the absence of doctors, the Odisha government has allowed pharmacists to dispense drugs to patients for 12 diseases. It said, “in order to overcome the difficulties, the government after careful consideration has been pleased to decide that in partial modification to earlier department order, the pharmacists are entrusted to dispense the …

What The 137% Hike in Health Budget Means: From a Doctor Petitioning for Healthy India
4 years, 1 month ago

What The 137% Hike in Health Budget Means: From a Doctor Petitioning for Healthy India

News 18  

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented India’s budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022 on Monday. Emphasizing that the Budget proposal of 2021-2022 rests on 6 pillars including that of Health and Wellbeing, Sitharaman proposed more than doubling India’s healthcare and wellbeing spending to 2.2 trillion rupees. Dr Sarika Verma, an ENT surgeon based out …

Karnataka govt announces cap on COVID-19 treatment rates for private hospitals
4 years, 9 months ago

Karnataka govt announces cap on COVID-19 treatment rates for private hospitals

India TV News  

The Karnataka government on Tuesday announced a cap on coronavirus treatment package rates in private hospitals for those referred by public health facilities in the range of Rs 5,200 to Rs 10,000. According to the order, package rates for patients referred by the public health authorities will be Rs 5,200 for general ward, Rs 7,000 for high-dependency unit, Rs 8,500 …

Needed, a transfusion for public health care
4 years, 9 months ago

Needed, a transfusion for public health care

The Hindu  

A news channel in India alleged recently that several private hospitals in the country were “exposed” by a “sting operation” to be levying fees in excess when COVID-19 patients went to them for care. A mirror to public care The reason for this abundance of private health care is obviously the lack of adequate public health care. The Indian government …

Less than a third of Indians go to public hospitals for treatment
4 years, 10 months ago

Less than a third of Indians go to public hospitals for treatment

Live Mint  

As coronavirus cases spread across the country over the past few weeks, private hospitals began closing their doors to patients. In Bihar, only 18 percent went to public hospitals whereas 65 percent reported getting treated by a private doctor. This is despite the fact that average medical expenditure per hospitalisation case in private hospitals in 2017-18 was ₹31,845 - as …

2 States junk NITI Aayog’s PPP model for health care
5 years, 2 months ago

2 States junk NITI Aayog’s PPP model for health care

The Hindu  

Calling out the Centre’s purported attempts to privatise public health care, the Congress governments in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have junked a plan to link private medical colleges with government-run district hospitals through a public-private partnership model across the country. “The intent of the State government is to provide complete health care services and continue doing that.” If district hospitals …

Depression, general anxiety form 34% of mental health cases in Karnataka: Report
5 years, 2 months ago

Depression, general anxiety form 34% of mental health cases in Karnataka: Report

The Hindu  

More than a million people sought mental healthcare in public health institutions across Karnataka during 2018-19, and depression and general anxiety disorders constituted 34% of the cases. According to the report, severe mental health issues and alcohol and substance abuse constituted 18.4% and 11.2% of the cases, respectively. Over the course of the year, 1,874,330 cases of severe mental disorder …

Why India needs more mohalla clinics
5 years, 3 months ago

Why India needs more mohalla clinics

Live Mint  

Both rural and urban households spend twice as much on outpatient or non-hospitalisation healthcare costs as they do on hospitalisations, data from a new National Sample Survey report shows. India has one of the world’s highest proportions of out-of-pocket health expenditure, and the expense per hospitalisation can be catastrophically high, especially for the poor. In general poorer people report lower …

Leftist organizations push for draconian bill that may kill Karnataka’s healthcare sector
7 years, 4 months ago

Leftist organizations push for draconian bill that may kill Karnataka’s healthcare sector

Op India  

The Karnataka government has tabled a draconian bill titled “Karnataka Private Medical Establishment Act” to regulate private healthcare in the state. The act excludes government hospitals from its provisions – ironic considering an overwhelming majority of population goes to private hospitals simply because the government healthcare system is in shambles and has proven its inadequacy in handling the country’s healthcare …

Karnataka doctors strike against govt move to regulate cost of pvt healthcare sector; 40,000 hospitals, clinics shut
7 years, 4 months ago

Karnataka doctors strike against govt move to regulate cost of pvt healthcare sector; 40,000 hospitals, clinics shut

Firstpost  

Around 40,000 private hospitals and clinics remained closed on Friday as private doctors went on strike protesting against Karnataka’s proposed amendments to a medical bill to fix costs for private hospitals and penalise doctors. Bengaluru: Around 40,000 private hospitals and clinics remained closed on Friday as private doctors went on strike protesting against Karnataka’s proposed amendments to a medical bill …

Amendments to Medical Bill to put private and government hospitals in Karnataka on the same table
7 years, 11 months ago

Amendments to Medical Bill to put private and government hospitals in Karnataka on the same table

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Government hospitals in the State will soon run on the same yardstick as private hospitals with the tweaking of the Karnataka Private Medical Establishment Act. Justice Vikramajit Sen, who chaired the expert committee to amend the KPMA Act said that government hospitals will be brought under the ambit of the new Act will be renamed Karnataka Medical Establishment Act, …

In rural health care, few good options
8 years, 3 months ago

In rural health care, few good options

The Hindu  

Lack of access to public health care is not the only reason why quacks — informal private health-care providers without any formal medical education — continue to flourish in rural India. Most private providers, the bulk of whom lack formal medical qualifications, “exerted significantly higher effort than public providers” and “recommend correct treatments equally often.” These are the findings of …

The ill health of the nation
8 years, 6 months ago

The ill health of the nation

The Hindu  

The National Health Accounts data for 2013-14 present fresh evidence that India continues to have a non-serious approach to the provision of universal health coverage to all its citizens. All these attributes are, once again, strongly borne out by the NHA data, which lay bare the extremely low government spending on health which, at 1.15 per cent of GDP, compares …

Remedying India’s healthcare colossus
8 years, 7 months ago

Remedying India’s healthcare colossus

The Hindu  

Between January and June 2014, 243 people out of 1,000 sought medical treatment within the public healthcare system of India, whereas 756 people out of 1,000 opted to visit a private doctor or private hospital. It is well known that the entire public healthcare system, from tertiary care hospitals in large cities to Primary Health Centres in rural areas, is …

Private hospitals charge four times more than government ones: National survey
9 years, 1 month ago

Private hospitals charge four times more than government ones: National survey

Firstpost  

The treatment in private hospitals is four times costlier than public facilities, this reflects challenges India faces in providing affordable healthcare New Delhi: The average cost of treatment in private hospitals, excluding child birth, is about four times than that of public healthcare facilities, reflecting the challenges that India faces in providing affordable and accessible healthcare, according to the Economic …

The growing burden of healthcare costs
9 years, 7 months ago

The growing burden of healthcare costs

Live Mint  

To the global traveller, India is increasingly becoming a destination of choice for medical tourism, with super-speciality hospitals in Indian cities offering medical care at rates lower than that in the developed world. The cost of treatment rose at a double-digit pace of growth, outpacing average inflation in both rural and urban India over the past decade, according to the …

For public health as political priority
10 years, 5 months ago

For public health as political priority

The Hindu  

How does Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s focus on population, health and subjects like public hygiene, the facilitation of toilets and ensuring preventive health through yoga fit in with his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s manifesto; one which promises a National Health Assurance mission, with its aim of providing cashless hospitalisation in order to reduce out-of-pocket expenses? In seeking the maximisation …

Government set to offer you free medicines
11 years, 5 months ago

Government set to offer you free medicines

Hindustan Times  

Keeping up its relentless focus on pro-poor schemes in the run up to the 2014 polls, the Congress has decided to fast track an ambitious scheme to provide free medicines to any person at all government hospitals and health facilities. For its scheme, the Centre is believed to have taken inspiration especially from Tamil Nadu that procures generic medicines in …

Healthcare overhaul: Indians will now get free generic drugs
12 years, 8 months ago

Healthcare overhaul: Indians will now get free generic drugs

Firstpost  

The initiative would overhaul a system where healthcare is often a luxury and private clinics account for four times as much spending as state hospitals, despite 40 percent of the people living below the poverty line, or $1.25 a day or less. From city hospitals to tiny rural clinics, India’s public doctors will soon be able to prescribe free generic …

‘Health is a basic right’
14 years, 11 months ago

‘Health is a basic right’

The Hindu  

Health care is a basic right and it is the duty of governments to provide it to citizens without charging them, a meeting of academicians, medical professionals and citizens demanded in the city on Friday. 20 per day, it is the duty of the State to ensure that all the people are given health care from cradle to grave without …

A gateway to health
21 years, 9 months ago

A gateway to health

The Hindu  

In terms of the availability of a large number of well-equipped hospitals, dedicated doctors and treatment expertise of international standards, all at a relatively low cost, Chennai is the place to be for dependable medical care. The majority of the patients from outside Tamil Nadu come to the corporate and multi-speciality hospitals such as Apollo, Malar and Devaki or to …

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