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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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    REFERENCES

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