More than 70 percent of healthcare in India is provided by corporate houses as a result of which poor people are not able to afford the high cost of medical care provided by private hospitals, health experts have said. “Corporates give good healthcare but charge a lot of money,” M.V. Padma Srivastava of the department of neurology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said at a seminar at the India International Centre here Wednesday evening.”Seventy percent of healthcare at present is given by corporates. Only 30 percent can afford it. So the others, that are the poor, cannot go anywhere,” she said. “Doesn’t this need soul searching within our policy experts,” Srivastava questioned. The seminar ‘High Stakes of the Withdrawal of the state from Healthcare’ discussed the role of state in providing healthcare to the people of the country. Srivastava observed that: “Health is not a luxury, it cannot be bartered. It has to be the state’s responsibility”.
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