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[INNOVATION AT NARAYANA HRUDAYALAYA] August 12, 2013
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT KOZHIKODE
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION
INNOVATION AT NARAYANA HRUDAYALAYA
SECTION B, GROUP 7
SHIFALI SASHIDHARAN 16/286
SONI KUMARI 16/288
SUBHRAJIT SARKAR 16/290
PARICHITA KAPOOR 16/275
NATASHA ADHANA 16/270
KAVYASHREE M 16/86
MONOJ KUMAR RABHA 16/91
SAUMYA KHETARPAL 16/163
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HEALTHCARE CONDITIONS IN INDIA
Though the healthcare sector is one of Indias largest in terms of revenue and employment, it
showcases the most inequitable scenario possible. On one side, patients from other countries fly
to India to get affordable medical treatment of good quality, boosting medical tourism. On the
other, many of these facilities are not available to the people residing in the country. Physical
infrastructure is highly inadequate in most parts of the nation. There is only one doctor available
for 1700 people in India.
As per a PWC report, there were of 15,393 hospitals in India in 2002 out of which roughly two-
thirds were public, and most of these public healthcare facilities provide only basic care. One
cause of this is years of under-funding. With a few exceptions, such as the All India Institute of
Medical Studies (AIIMS), most of the public health facilities are inefficient, under-staffed, with
poorly maintained medical equipment and overall inadequately managed. The number of public
health facilities also is far less than the requirement. For example, India needs almost 74,150
community health centres per million people but has less than half that number.
The condition in the rural areas is even worse than the urban areas despite initiatives like
National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). The following statistics are evidence of this:
50% of all villagers have no access to healthcare providers.
37% are chronically starved
10% of all babies die before their first birthday
50% of all babies are likely to be permanently stunted due to lack of proper nutrition
There is also a disparity in the urban and rural areas with respect to the human resources
available:
Urban India has four times more doctors and three times more nurses than rural India.
Only 193 of Indias 640 districts have medical colleges. The impactof this is that doctors
move away, either to urban centres with medical colleges or abroad because of which the
local community may suffer
Almost 80% of the medical colleges are located in South and West India creating a dearth of
professionals in Northern, Eastern and Central India
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Besides the above factors, the government spending on healthcare has remained low. In 2010,
approximately 5% of the nations GDP was spent on healthcare, less than any other BRIC
nation Out of this government spending was around 0.9% - a meagre amount. This has led to
very high out-of-pocket expenditure for the masses. Around 74% of total spending on healthcare
is done by the people themselves (out-of-pocket) and a majority of this is on drugs alone. Only
14% of the population is covered by some form of health insurance. Millions are forced into
poverty due to such high medical expenditure. The following table gives a comparison between
the percentage of GDP spent on healthcare; private expenditure in percentage and per capita
government expenditure on healthcare. Indias spending is not even close to the BRICS nations,
let alone the top bracket comprising of US and UK. Due to low spending by the government, a
majority of resources lie with the private sector only.
Source: Planning Commission Health Division report for the 12th Five Year Plan
Country Total % ofGDP for
healthcare
PrivateExpenditure
%
Per capitahealthcare
spend (US $)
Per capitagovernment spendson healthcare (US$)
India 4.1 70.8 132 39
USA 17.9 46.9 8362 4437
UK 9.6 16.1 3480 2919
South Africa 8.9 55.9 935 412
China 5.1 46.4 379 203
Brazil 9 53 1028 483
Pakistan 2.2 61.5 59 23
Nigeria 5.1 62.1 121 46
Russia 5.1 37.9 998 620
India has seen a shift in its disease burden from communicable to non-communicable diseases.
Cardiovascular diseases account for almost half of the deaths caused by non-communicable
diseases, being the largest cause of mortality. In 2008, around one-fourth of all deaths in India
were caused by cardiovascular diseases. They are expected to grow at around 9.2% annually
between the years 2005 and 2015.
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There are three key challenges being faced in the field of cardiac care in India: low availability,
low accessibility and low affordability for the masses. Low availability exists in terms of lack of
efficient healthcare infrastructure. Low accessibility refers to inequitable access to facilities as
mentioned previously. Around 60% of the hospitals are located in the urban areas; these cater to
only 30% of the population. Only 13% of the rural population has access to primary healthcare
facilities and only 10% to a hospital. Primary and Secondary healthcare facilities in India focus
mainly on infectious diseases or child and maternal health, thus being under prepared to handle
cardiovascular diseases. Low affordability of quality care is a major concern as big hospitals have
a high cost of treatment due to usage of advanced technology. This problem is aggravated by the
low penetration of health insurance. Large out of pocket payments and low coverage means
financial distress for many. Healthcare expenditure on chronic diseases can account for up to
70% of the average monthly salary of people in the low income group, and around 45% in the
highest income group. Around 28% of all diseases in the rural areas go untreated due to financial
constraints. Controlling costs therefore is essential, considering the fact that more than two-
thirds of the population lives on less than $2 a day. A study by the Public Health Foundation of
India and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine found that in India
noncommunicable ailments such as heart disease are now more common among the poor than
the rich.
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NARAYANA HRUDAYALAYA
To answer the issue of lack of affordability of quality cardiac care, Dr. Devi Shetty opened his
flagship hospital in Bangalore in 2001: Narayana Hrudayalaya Health City. Reducing costs
through purchase of cheaper scrubs and spurning air-conditioning and the like, Dr. Shetty has
managed to reduce the price of artery-clearing coronary bypass surgery to almost half of what it
was 20 years ago. Currently the price stands at 95,000 rupees ($1,555). He aims to bring this
down further to $800 within a decade. The same procedure costs $106,385 at Ohios Cleveland
Clinic, according to data from the Centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He has thus
proved that it is possible to deliver high quality cardiac care at a cost which is affordable for the
masses. As per Dr. Shetty, The current price of everything that you see in health care is
predominantly opportunistic pricing and the outcome of inefficiency. The following graph
illustrates cost of the bypass in other countries:
Despite the fact that one-fourth of the people in India die of a heart attack, only 1-1.2 lakh heart
surgeries are performed in year, falling short of the estimated two million surgeries needed.
Dr.Shetty plans to add 30,000 beds over the next decade to the 6,000 his hospitals have now, and
he has identified 100 towns with populations of 500,000 to 1 million that have no heart hospital.
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BUSINESSMODELOFNARAYANAHRUDAYALAYA:
The following framework will help in explaining the business model of Narayana Hrudayalaya in
great detail:
Value Offering:
The target population is mainly the people at the bottom of the pyramid. Narayana Hrudayalaya
(henceforth to be referred as NH) aims to provide affordable and accessible healthcare to all
Indian citizens with stress given on preventive healthcare through awareness campaigns rather
than curing the illness. In order to reach out to the poor people NH has an integrated network
of hospitals, mobile vans and tele-medicine network through video conferencing.
Operational Strategy:
Since NH is not driven by commercial interests and the main objective was to bring about a
revolution in making healthcare accessible to poorer sections of the society, there was a constant
focus on cost control across the complete value chain. NH has a lean organisational structure.
Here the surgeons concentrate mainly on surgeries and consultations and not on administrative
tasks, where specialists are involved. Hence peoples responsibilities are such that is their core
competency. Girls from poor homes are trained as nurses. This serves two purposes: The salaries
are lower and also being from the same condition the nurses have an inner urge to service the
poor better. Also extended working hours for surgeons and extended availability of OTs ensure
that surgeries take place in high volumes. Thus the business model of NH is low margin high
volume model.
Delivery Channel:
The delivery channel is a mix of in-house treatment and tele-medicine. People are both treated in
NH hospitals as well as expertise/advice is given over phone or video conferencing.
Customer Interface Strategy:
NH has engaged locals in their operations, honing their skills and training them for last mile
connectivity to consumers. NH also has launched micro-insurance schemes like Yeshaswini and
Arogya Raksha, which help make healthcare affordable for the masses.
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Yeshaswini Insurance Scheme:
The Yeshaswini health insurance scheme, launched in June 2003, was developed by the Narayana
Hrudayala Foundation in association with the Department of Cooperation, Government of
Karnataka, to cater for 17 lakh farmers. The scheme is self-funded and does not have insurance
cover from any insurance company.
The scheme offers free consultations, diagnostics at discounted rates and all types of operations
on the stomach, brain, gall bladder, spine, bones, kidneys and heart for a monthly payment of
INR 5 ( 0.09) (INR 60 per person per year). The Government pays INR 2.50 (0.045) (INR 30
a year) for every member, making it a yearly premium of INR 90 (1.64). This year it has been
increased to INR 120 ( 2.19) for every adult member and INR 60 ( 1.09) for children below 18
years to encourage family membership.
Results:
In the first year the scheme had 1.7 million people and in the second year around 2.5 million
people. At the end of 18 months more than 22,000 farmers had undergone operations.
Finance Strategy:
Narayana Hrudayalaya follows the cross-subsidised approach, where they target the high- andmid-income segments apart from the low-income segment, and charge them as per their paying
capacity. This has helped both offering a high performance/ price ratio to the poorest segment.
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FINANCIALSTRUCTURE:
The financial structure of NH can be explained under the following heads:
1. Revenue Mix:
50 per cent from heart surgeries
9 per cent from CCUs
8 per cent from OPD
Rest from donations
2. Cost per patient:
The average price realization, after taking into account the flexible prices that
NH charged for different patients, for heart surgery in a typical month was
US$2,300 ; the break-even cost was about US$1,800
3. Revenue Stream:
Corporate paying through medical insurance schemes
Affluent individuals paying bills as per market rates
4. Profit Figures:
The EBITDA for NH was around 20 per cent while Apollo Hospitals (leader
in its class) has a EBITDA of only 16.3% in 2011.This shows the tremendous
levels of process innovations done by people at NH.
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HUMANCAPITALMANAGEMENT
Every day in NH, large volume of open-heart surgeries and catheterization is done. To handle
such large volume, there is a pool of skilled and qualified medical staffs. Moreover, there is high
level of capacity utilization and staff productivity to handle procedure effectively and efficiently.
There are major challenges of staff retention and recruitment in NH. Staff retention came in
picture due to increasing opportunities for nurses to get high wages in other organisations and
recruitment was seen as issue because of involvement of high cost in recruitment process. To
respond these challenges, NH used intensive training programmes which help to promote
specialist and other medical staff from within its staff pool to keep cost down. These
programmes also helped to provide growth path for medical staffs. Nursing is very important
part of staffs duties and had high turnover rate.Training programmes were developed to retain
nurses, which included:
Intensive training with critical-care experience
Cardiac nursing for six months in the critical care unit
For recruitment purpose, NH has done noticeable work:
Started nursing college to ensure constant supply of qualified nurses at relatively low cost
Since, govt. subsidies and loans from banks made easy for people from remote area and
poorer communities to study and train to be nurses
NH has also realized that its nurses were in high demand in India & abroad. This situation
appeared as opportunity for nurses to leave NH for getting higher salaries in other part of India
& abroad. So, for staff retention, NH adopted a policy of paying high wages.
This policy had provision of:
Higher wages to a core group of nurses to retain them
Filling up the remaining need by a continuous flow of incoming nurses from its own
training institution.
With the help of training and recruitment programmes along with payment policy, NH managed
staff retention and had cost effective recruitment of skilled medical staffs.
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INNOVATION IN THE BUSINESSES PROCESS
More care to more patients
Narayanan Hrudayalaya undergoes a list of processes as described below:
Family physician or OPD performs first level screening
If required, patient is recommended a heart surgery
Patients enter NH and pay minimal Rs.300 as registration fee
Further tests and screening is performed on enrolled patients
Cost of package is assessed after a word with surgeon and availability of money for
discounts
Patients financial background is assessed by billing staff. Government concession or
relief if available are paid and patients are advised for the same
Patient turned to charity if needed, to find donors
Surgery performed
Innovation comes in the level of linking financial structure to day-to-day problems. Rarely one
finds companies which roll out insurance schemes, support poor, reduce the prices to benefit the
needy and link this financial modeling to increase their volumes of patients which in turn willlower their effective cost. NH achieved a breakthrough by achieving the right combination of
financial schemes, reducing their inventory to increase volume of patients which the hospital can
efficiently handle. To compare the hospitals with other hospitals:
NHs heart hospital of 1000 beds achieves a rate of 35 heart surgeries/day on average
And in 2011, NHs surgeons performed 6272 heart operations last year- quite high
Quite high compared to 4128 surgeries, in a leading American hospital
NHs surgeons are freed from paper work including Shetty to increase their efficiency of
performing surgeries
NHs surgeons review P&L of previous day to account for full payers for the coming day
HIGH VOLUME OF OPEN HEART SURGERIES
NH has high capacity utilisation and high staff productivity. They achieve this by several
ways by increasing the working time of doctors or by decreasing the space between two
beds in a typical operation theatre. NH has reduced the time of setup for an operationand time of performing an operation and procedures to one of the lowest in the world.
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Not only Longer- shift hours, but NH also has its operation theatres running for long
period of time, not 6 hours typically which most of the cardiac OTs run. Innovation
process comes in the process by the fact that surgeries are performed at night also, which
was not seen even at Americas leading hospitals.
PROCUREMENT
NH sources its materials from several sources of suppliers and not a single supplier
because their purchasing frequency in high. They typically do not stock a lot of inventory
and hence they enter into short term contract, generally weakly with all of its suppliers.
This reduced the scope of opportunistic profits for the suppliers
To adapt to a low cost model, NH reduced the fixed cost and went on the path of
leasing equipment instead of purchasing the equipments.
PARTNERSHIPS
NH linked every process to reduce the cost and increase the volumes. Their partnerships
were also were a part of the same framework. NH had partnerships with state
government and insurance companies to bring financial schemes and assistance for poor.
This resulted into a feedback loop to again increase the volume of patients.
It also had an agreement with Texas instruments for reducing the cost of monitoring, by
building instruments, which again led to a feedback loop of high volume of patients.
NH even launched Arogya Raksha which was also an insurance scheme with Biocon
and ICICI Lombard Ltd. It resulted in a surge of the patients. There were instances
where patients were required to give an insurance premium of 15 cents per month.
HUMAN RESOURCES HANDLING
Continuous training programmes to promote specialists and other medical staff
Started a nursing college to ensure constant supply of qualified nurses at lower cost
6 month training in CCU and nurses were found in good demand in abroad and India.
Higher wages, financial help for a core group of nurses to retain them
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OTHER INNOVATIONS IN PROCESS OF NARAYANA HRUDAYALAYA ARE:
NH reduced the cost of a typical ECG machine from US 750$ to less than 300$.
NH with its own software company wrote the software for ECG machine to read
data into to the PC to reduce cost
No licensing fee charged when sold to other hospitals
NH in association with TI built a digital X-Ray plate that was priced at US 300$
instead of conventional US 82000$
Required less no. of radiologists
Mobile outreach vans were launched for cardiac diagnosis and care
The vans carried all cardiac equipment and generator for power failure with a
cardiologist and technicians
Low cost screenings were performed, and counseling for NH was also done
Telemedicine as used to increase the access of health care in rural areas through
Bangalore and Kolkata and has reached 14 indian cities now
Hrudya Post was organized in association with Karnataka Postal Circle which
allowed rural patients to scan and send their medical records which after being
analyzed were sent back with detailed report from NH
Dispersion of 100 dialysis facilities is making NH Indias biggest kidney care
provider
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COST REDUCTION THROUGH TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
There are 3 major components to the costs of providing medical care:
1. Wages: Salaries of health care professionals
2. Fixed Cost: Cost of medical equipment
3. Real Estate: Cost of Land
SALARIES
Narayanas workforce consists of 42 internationally trained and experienced consultant surgeons.
Consultant productivity is maximised through using their time effectively and the support of
lower skilled staff. Junior surgeons would open and close surgical procedures while consultants
would only do the most complex part of the operation. Allowing them to spend one hour on a
six hour operation, and often do two procedures at once. In addition Narayana make much
greater use of pre-graduate doctors and low skilled staff, often in the form of non-clinical
employees trained in specific tasks. To attract and retain the best manpower, NH pays
compensation at par with the best. However due to longer work hours, they are able to perform
more surgeries per day, thus reducing the cost per procedure.
COST OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
The fixed cost or the equipment costs are reined by maximising the asset utilisation. Within the
same Health City (a series of larger-than-usual centres specializing in cardiology, eye, trauma,
orthopaedics, neurosciences, dental and cancer care; comprising of 16 hospitals and 5700 beds.),
the various specialties share expensive imaging equipment and other facilities such as laser, cyber
knife and blood bank, and run them round the clock instead of 7-8 hours daily, thus increasing
asset utilization. They also are able to convince the vendors to simply park their machines in the
hospital instead of outright purchase and buy consumables from them, thus saving on Capex.
COST OF LAND
NH partners with the Governments and real estate owners to get land at subsidized rates and
procure medical technology at lease.
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Apart from the measures taken to reduce these costs individually NH has adopted a unique
principle of economies of scale for lowering the total healthcare costs by increasing the scale of
its operation and its turnover by increasing accessibility. NH has created Health Cities with
huge capacities in terms of infrastructure (hospital beds, OTs, catheterisation labs, dialysis
centres and human resources).
Standardisation: Because of the greater volumes Organization has been able to hone its
physicians towards greater proficiency levels, and also negotiate better prices for inputs directly
from vendors. This enables to streamline Organizations workflows, processes and build systems
towards better efficiency and costeffectiveness.
Cost of visiting consultant: A rural healthcare service, Hrudaya Post, was launched with
Karnataka postal circle to enable rural heart patients to scan and send their medical records to
NH for consultation, from nearest post office. The hospital would revert back with a detailed
report and advice to the patient, within 24 hours, free of cost. This arrangement helps in saving
time and money required for visiting consultants.
Telemedicine and ICT: Through the use of telemedicine and other Information and
Communication Technology applications, NH is able to share medical expertise with remoteparts of India as well other countries. The NH has migrated to digital radiology achieving better
throughput and image quality.
Coronary Care Units:The use of telecare to bring expert medical care to the local level remains
limited in the NHS. Smaller Coronary Care Units (CCUs) are linked to the major cardiac centres
and GPs are trained to provide checks and administer basic treatment. Hospital based specialists
provide consultations through the internet and videoconferencing. To date 53,000 patients have
been treated this way. Only 1 per cent of cases treated in CCUs require surgery.
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In order to increase their reach, they took control of the distribution channel. They introduced
Mobile Outreach Vans which took medical units and doctors to extremely rural areas and set up
camps, where the poor could get treatment close to their locality without having to incur
additional travel or stay expenses. For this, they had to bring about innovation in their surgical
procedure also so that the duration of the surgery is reduced and patients can return home the
same day. They also introduced Telemedicine.
The Yeshaswini Insurance Scheme started by NH in collaboration with the government was
another major step of integrating Complementors into the system in order to make healthcare
accessible to the poor.
Thus, NH adapted to the needs of the market through operational effectiveness by improved
performance drivers and integrating Complementors into the core of their system. By targeting
the right customers through their involvement in the distribution channels, and bringing about
innovations in all operations to improve efficiency and reduce costs, NH has been consistently
attracting more customers and operating on profits. Their strategy is thus best aligned with the
System Lock-In concept.
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INNOVATION CAPABILITY OF NH
NH has been driving innovation in the following spheres of its activity:
Learning: By concentrating on their specializations, time taken by doctors to operate
considerable reduced with increase in experience, thus allowing them to cater to larger number
of patients in the same time period. This helped increase returns and reach.
R&D:Improving the operation procedure also helped doctors focus just on their core function,
while the rest of the work was done by specially trained staff. NH also invested in technological
innovation to develop new technology which would help reduce the fixed costs associated with
surgery and thus improve margins.
Resource Allocation:NH ensured adequate inventory management, which again helped reduce
costs and improve profits. They also trained their nurses, and focus on specialization for doctors
made them better in their service.
Marketing:NH conducted a number of open camps to make patients aware and increase their
customer base. These camps were a major source of footfall for NH. Also, use of Mobile
Outreach Vans and Telemedicine procedures helped in making known their service, and made it
more accessible to the rural population.
Organization:NH ensured that it adopts a business model that runs on profit, and not just one
that runs on funds and donations from a trust. This was important to keep the organization
growing and to expand their services. A constant source of revenue and objective to attain
economies of scale to reduce costs was a strategic decision to make their service accessible to all.
Strategic Planning: NH reduced their administrational roles to the minimum required
numbers. Dr. Shetty himself spent some of his time to overlook the operation of the hospital,
while the rest of the administrative task was handled by professionals.
Thus, NH is able to continuously transform its knowledge and ideas into new processes and systems in order to
improve its operations and technologies to achieve greater profits and innovative capabilities.
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SCALABILITY OF NHOPERATIONS AND EXPANSION STRATEGIES AND PLANS
NH expansion plans
Narayana Hrudayala started its operation in a 25acre facility in Bangalore with about 300 beds
and 5 Operation theatres. Today it has 6000 beds with 17 hospitals, present in 13 locations
across the country performing roughly 120 surgeries per day and attending 80,000 OPD patients
per month. By 2020, they plan to reach 30,000 beds developing similar health cities, like the one
in Bangalore, across the country. They are also looking at expanding the facility to abroad by
creating three or four health cities around the US border.
NH expansion strategy
Keeping in view the great demand for healthcare in India and also to achieve economies of scale
and scope, NH has adopted a unique principle of constructing Health Cities across the country
for lowering healthcare costs and increasing accessibility. Health Cities have huge capacities in
terms of infrastructure - hospital beds, operation theatres, labs, dialysis centres, human resources
etc. They are a series of larger-than-usual centres specializing in different areas apart from
cardiology like the eye care, orthopaedics, neurology, dental and cancer care.
Handling greater volumes has helped NH to hone the proficiency of the specialists to greater
levels. They partner with the Governments and real estate owners and are able to get lands at a
subsidized rate. Most of the medical technology is leased, with many vendors parking their
equipment in the hospital free of cost and are paid on usage basis. NH has this bargaining
power, mainly due to the higher volumes of surgeries performed. This reduces the capital
expenditure. They use generic drugs extensively and go for bulk purchases from medical stores
negotiating discounts.
One of the main challenges in the healthcare industry is the lack of skilled manpower. A person
who hands over the instruments during an appendix operation is usually a BSc in nursing. But
such skilled labour is not required to do such tasks. NH extensively employs semi-skilled labour
and trains them, thus bringing down operating expenditure. The consultants have a better
productivity as a junior surgeon would open and close surgical procedures while consultants
would do only the most complex part of the operation.
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MAJOR CHALLENGES AT NARAYANA HRUDAYALAYA
The following are the major challenges that are currently faced by NH:
Increasing capacity without lowering quality
Overly Bureaucratic Government machinery
Regulations in starting new medical colleges to train doctors and nurses
Making available Telemedicine & high tech healthcare for all
Extending health insurance services to poor and rural Indian population through micro-
health insurance scheme (Yeshaswini)
Expansion of core cardiac surgery facilities across India and other geographies
The major obstacle for NH in expanding its healthcare facilities is the overly bureaucratic
government machinery. The Government has done little for encouraging and promoting the
initiatives of NH. Healthcare items have to go through high import duties and no subsidies are
provided. Also, getting land and other resources for expansion of medical centres is another
hurdle in the path of NH.
As most of the rural population has very low income, the issue of financing for health insuranceis a major constraint in providing health insurance. Also there is no healthcare infrastructure like
hospitals, dispensaries; etc in most of the areas and the state is unable to develop these facilities
due to high expenses involved. Further, it is very essential for NH to have a constant supply of
trained medical professionals and staff to maintain its high quality and low cost.
Possible Solutions:
Increase government participation in various schemes
Partnership with government hospitals for providing basic facilities and primary
treatment in case of heart ailments
Use the infrastructure of government hospitals for tele-medicine
For providing healthcare insurance to the poor, involve both the poor and state
governments as stakeholders
Collaborate with cooperatives and NGOs to expand the facilities to rural masses
Increase the use of ICT (Currently, it is using cloud for its hospital management system)
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3. Narayana Hrudayalaya - Caring with Compassion, Gp Capt (Dr) Sanjeev Sood,
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