<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sulakshana Nandi</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sulakshana.nandi@gmail.com" target="_blank">sulakshana.nandi@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 6:14 PM<br>Subject: PHM-Exch> Healthcare before Profits- Statement by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan against government's move to incentivise private sector to set up hospitals<br>To: phm-exchange <<a href="mailto:phm-exchange@phm.phmovement.org" target="_blank">phm-exchange@phm.phmovement.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Friends</div><div dir="ltr">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). </div><div dir="ltr">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 The JSA demands that these guidelines as well as the PMJAY be withdrawn immediately.<br></div><div>Please find the full statement here- <a href="https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/13/letters/healthcare-profits.html" target="_blank">https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/13/letters/healthcare-profits.html</a></div><div dir="ltr"><div>with regards</div><div>Sulakshana</div></div></div></div>
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