‘PPP can help save ₹100 crore in diagnostic tests’
Aayog has pressed for reforms in labour laws to take the country out of what it calls the low-productivity and low-wage jobs situation. The government’s thinktank, in its 3-year draft action agenda, has said that unifying the existing large number of labour laws into four codes without reforming them will serve little purpose.
NITI Aayog, instead making policies favourable to farmers and labourers, is furthering the corporate lobby’s agenda, Dhadhich said. At the recently held triennial conference in Kanpur, the BMS has decided to demand reorganisation of NITI Aayog, he said. “We are protesting against the NITI Aayog; we demand rejection of the planning body’s anti-worker action plan document on labour and employment,” he said.
The Rajasthan government can save up to ₹100 crore a year in diagnostic services at 16 affiliated hospitals of the state’s eight medical colleges by replicating the public private partnership (PPP) mode adopted by Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya Hospital, a health official said.
The hospital in Jaipur, popularly known as Gangori Hospital, is attached to Sawai Man Singh Medical College.
It adopted the PPP mode for clinical laboratory services in October 2016. “In six months beginning October, the hospital has saved more than ₹30 lakh, which is quite encouraging,” hospital superintendent Dr Ajay Mathur told HT. “If replicated in all affiliated hospitals, this model will help the state government save ₹100 crore a year.”
“Running a diagnostic laboratory was proving very costly. So, I conducted an institutional audit. In 2015, few lakhs were spent on reagents and unit cost of per test was outrageous.”
There was no positive initiative by the govt to provide relief to farmers, who are not getting right price of their produce