Panchkula, January 28
Advocating the need of public-private partnership (PPP) in the health sector, the Chief Secretary of Haryana, Mr Prem Prashant, said that the state or central government would be unable to fund the required infrastructure alone in the sector to cater to the entire population.
"While we have begun implementing the PPP mode in building of roads, bridges and ports, the time has come when the model needs to be adopted by the social sector as well where education and health are priority areas," he stated after inaugurating a multi-speciality Dhawan Hospital in Sector 5.
"Any government must be able to give the assurance of senior citizens' pension, medical facility and assurance of a place to reside. If the state gives these to its citizens, the people will be free from worry. I think we are moving towards this goal," the Chief Secretary added.
Disclosing that he had mooted a medical insurance scheme for below poverty line people, he said that according to the scheme the state would bear the medical expenses and make the best facilities in the sector available to those who cannot afford it.
He also strongly recommended the case of the poor by urging private hospitals to fix a percentage of poor patients who would be able to get a free treatment in lieu of concessions offered by the state in allotment of land.
The director of the Hospital, Dr Kuldeep Dhawan, said that the 30-bedded hospital would offer all types of surgical and gynaecological minimally invasive laproscopic surgeries. Equipped with operation theatres, pain clinical research centre as also a in-house laboratory, x-ray facilities, the hospital has a general and a private ward as well. Besides, the hospital is also equipped to handle ENT, neck surgery and a 24-hour emergency.
