PPP will ensure better progress in healthcare: Naidu

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 16:

Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu said that a public-private partnership will ensure better progress in ensuring quality healthcare facilities in the country. Affordability has to be considered in ensuring quality health care, he added.

Naidu was speaking at the inauguration of the Madhukar Rainbow Children’s Hospital in New Delhi on Wednesday. The multispecialty hospital with all paediatric and maternal care services under one roof is a branch of a leading private healthcare provider in the south.

“If we join the public sector and private sector, healthcare facilities will progress much faster in the country,” said Naidu.

Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda stated, “It is indeed a very unique idea, which is uncommon in India, where under one roof all specialists will cater to the paediatric health needs of children.”