Abhiruchi Galhotra
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Title: An overview of health care system in India
Biography
Biography: Abhiruchi Galhotra
Abstract
Health Care embraces a multitude of “services provided to individuals or communities by agents of the health services or professions, for the purpose of promoting, maintaining, monitoring, or restoring health.” Health services meet the needs of entire population; cover the full range of Preventive, Curative and Rehabilitative services, as part of the basic social services of a country. India has a population of over 1.2 billion with 28 states and 9 Union Territories.
Central government formulates comprehensive health policies and plans under the direction of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for items of national importance, including disease control, medical education, the medical profession, and state budgets, are the shared responsibility of the central government and individual states. Public health sector consist of
Primary Health Care (Provided at Sub centre)
Secondary Health Care (Provided at PHC, CHC, DH)
Tertiary Health Care (Provided at large hospitals)
Public health sector is multifaceted various types of providers practicing in different systems of medicine, within different ownership structures. Individual states are given primary authority over most aspects of healthcare. An estimated 80% of public healthcare funding comes from the states. In-patient hospitalisation expenditure in India increased to 300% in last 10yrs in which more than 80% of expenditure met by OOPE, which leads to nearly 6million families getting into poverty due to catastrophic health expenditure. This led Government of India to launch Ayushman Bharat on 23 September 2018 with objective to cover over 10.74 crore poor and vulnerable families.