Jammu and Kashmir Innovative Foundation for Transforming Society (JKIFTS) lead by Dr. Tasaduk Hussain Itoo conducted a webinar on “Health For All”
The webinar was conducted by columnists council of JKIFTS, under one of its core initiatives.
Advocate Syed Mujtaba, one of the core executive members of the council, while briefing the session said that the Govt. need to ensure to the citizens the right to access to health facilities which must be affordable, available, quality-based and serviceable.
He said that key human rights in public health system includes Right to Health with privacy and confidentiality and there must be shift to Rights- based Healthcare system.
Abrar Ul Mustafa, one of the members of the council, while speaking during the session said that Investment in Healthcare system deals with putting money into various interconnected entities viz hospitals, medical tourism, clinical trials, health insurance, medical devices and equipment, etc. and its main purpose is to achieve a harmonious mix so that these assets appreciate and improve over time.
He said that India has been spending not more than 1.3% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on Healthcare system and in Jammu and Kashmir, 80% of the Healthcare investment is from the public sector.
He said that to increase and streamline the investment in Healthcare of Jammu and Kashmir, there are some key conceptual models of financial and economic recognition that may be adopted;
(a) Trust and Management Services Model: Here legally compliant and registered trusts may be formed to purchase land and build a medical facility thereon.
(b) Public-Private partnership (PPP) Model: In this setup, government joins hands with private entities and High Networth Individuals (HNIs) to invest in projects together.
(c) Entrepreneurship in Healthcare: The latest government policy regarding investment in Healthcare encourages entrepreneurship in this sector in manufacturing and services. Government has announced a 30% subsidy in projects covering capital investment in a medical and healthcare facility.
(d) Doctors’ and Professionals’ Model: Doctors, chatered accountants, bankers and related professionals join hands to set up indigenous medical facilities with the help of equity debt.
Tawfeeq Irshad Mir, the other member who spoke on the occasion said that out of pocket expenditure means how much a person has to bear the cost out of his/her own pocket for seeking any sort of medical intervention.
He said that in India it is way below, an individual has to bear around 75% of cost out of his/her debt in a govt. health facility, while its only around 28% in around 35 countries which have subsumed into health coverage, and while rest of the progressive countries disburse 5.4% of its annual income to health care, India lingers around only 1%.
“Universal health coverage includes an efficient work force team. Kashmir ushers in a saga of depression, panic anxiety due to ongoing turmoil. In addition to this we have an epidemic of blindness due to pellet injuries. Focus should be on creating more space of psychologists and psychiatrists. Training health care workers in dealing with rage of psychiatric ailments and pellet injured victims”, he added.
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