Medanta group to invest ₹4K cr in UP’s health care sector
Dr Naresh Trehan stresses on improving primary & secondary health care delivery as it would reduce burden on super specialty hosps. Medanta to be operational in city from Feb shortstories
LUCKNOW: Medanta --The Medicity group would invest more than ₹4,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh’s health care sector in the next two years, said group chairman Padma Bhushan Dr Naresh Trehan, talking to Hindustan Times on the occasion of the 35th Foundation Day celebration of Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) on Friday.
“In Lucknow, Medanta would become operational from February next year. The state of the art 1,000 bed hospital will come up at a cost of ₹1,200 crore. In Noida, a hospital would come up at a cost of ₹1000 crore , while the Medanta hospitals of Gorakhpur, Varanasi and Prayagraj would come up with an investment of ₹800 crore each. Lucknow Medanta would be the biggest where research work would also be undertaken besides patient care,” he said.
Earlier, delivering the oration lecture in SGPGIMS on ‘Indian Health Care –The Road Ahead’, Dr Trehan said that the time had come when private and public sectors would have to work jointly under PPP model to bridge the gap in the present health care system.
He said, “If the primary and secondary health care system is improved, 50% patients would not come to tertiary care institutes like SGPGIMS and Medanta. People want to treated in a super specialty hospital like PGI for small things like cold and cough due to of lack of basic and community health care.”
“Private players have a role at primary and secondary level as most private hospitals survive on 60 to 65 % bed occupancy. These hospitals can utilise their full potential if they join hands with the government,” he said.
Dr Trehan said, “About 61.8% patients suffer from non communicable diseases like diabetes and cardiac ailments, 27.5% suffer from communicable diseases and 10% patients come to hospitals due to injuries caused by external accidents. If these patients get good primary and secondary health care, the crowd at super specialty centres would automatically be reduced.” He said the state government planned to come out with a health investment policy in which it was expected that the government would spend 40% while the rest of the money would be generated by private players. In return 33% of poor patients would be treated free, 30% of the lower middle class people would be treated at subsidised rates and the rest would have to pay the actual cost.
Dr Trehan said in the US, hospitals were opened in areas where they were required. “Here too we have to follow this policy of issuing utility certificate for opening hospitals so that health centres come up in areas where they are required.”
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and secondary health care because for tertiary health care ₹ 1 crore per bed was spent while for district level hospitals the cost was much less.
Chief secretary Anoop Chandra Pandey said, “The state will soon come out with a medical investment policy for corporate hospitals. This would improve investment in private health care sector.”