PHM-Exch> Healthcare before Profits- Statement by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan against government's move to incentivise private sector to set up hospitals

[Sulakshana Nandi]

Dear Friends
On 8 January 2019, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW),
Government of India (GoI) issued a press statement on guidelines for
incentivising the private sector in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities to set up
private hospitals by providing them with land and funds (including
Viability Gap Funding) and facilitating clearances. The only requirement of
the hospital in lieu of such liberal support is that they would have to
empanel under the PMJAY (publicly-funded health insurance/Modicare).
These guidelines confirm JSA's apprehensions that the PMJAY, as with its
predecessor the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), is nothing but a
mechanism to transfer the already scarce public resources to the private
corporate health sector. The JSA demands that these guidelines as well as
the PMJAY be withdrawn immediately.
Please find the full statement here-
https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/13/letters/healthcare-profits.html
with regards
Sulakshana
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