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Bring government hospitals under standard treatment plan: Experts
Monday October 08, 2012 09:41:04 PM,
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New Delhi: Health
experts and industry Monday welcomed the government's move to put
a check on unnecessary medical tests done by hospitals and
demanded that government hospitals should also be brought under
the proposed plan.
Director General of Health Services Jagdish Prasad was quoted as
saying by a newspaper here that the government was planning to
make it mandatory for all private hospitals to declare and display
the treatment costs of different diseases.
The government would also notify standard costs and medical
procedures for various diseases to check over-billing, according
to Prasad.
Sangita Reddy, executive director of private hospital chain
Apollo, said the step would help bring down the out-of-pocket
expenditure.
"Access, affordability and quality have been three major issues
plaguing the Indian healthcare sector. The limited public
expenditure of 1.1 percent of GDP has not been able to provide the
required access and hence we see about 80 percent of healthcare
providers in the private sector.
"About 60 percent of healthcare expenses are borne out of pocket
due to low penetration of Health Insurance and we are at an early
stage of quality adherence in health sector in the country," Reddy
said.
In a statement, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and
Industry (FICCI), however, said that "it would be incorrect to
single out only private healthcare providers for unnecessary
tests. Over and under diagnosis is an issue that exists in public
hospitals as well".
FIICI suggested developing standard treatment guidelines.
"There are several states like Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Karnataka,
Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, which have also developed STGs
(standard treatment guidelines).
"The need of the hour is to bring about convergence of all
isolated initiatives and have a STGs for national coverage,
categorised according to tertiary, secondary and primary care in
the country," FICCI added.
Chairman of National Accreditation Board for Hospitals &
Healthcare Providers Narottam Puri said that accreditation for all
hospitals should be focused upon.
"It's a pity that some of the top hospitals of the cities, both
public and private, are not accredited. Accreditation should be
used as a quality improvement tool in the country to benefit the
consumer," Puri said.
He also said that hospitals should not be categorised on the basis
of cost of treatment.
"Categorisation of hospitals based on only cost of treatment
should certainly not be the way forward. This will only create
unnecessary confusion in the mind of the patient while seeking
treatment in private sector hospitals," he added.
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