Patient Rights Accountability and the Need For Transparent Institutional Mechanisms 

E. PREMDAS PINTO
The promotion of the paradigm of health care as a 'private good' and the State's indiscriminate endorsement of private health care sector for the business of health care, has grossly undermined patient rights.  Investing in Health, the World Bank Report (1993), is a watershed  in this paradigm, as it legitimised the departure from considering health care as a public good... READ MORE


The Terrain of Private Medical Sector in South Asia

Support for Training and Advocacy to Health Initiatives (SATHI)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
South Asia is the most densely populated geographical region in the world and one fourth population of the world is living here. The healthcare situation in this sub-continent is abysmal, with a notable exception of Sri Lanka. Most of the South Asian countries score low on Universal Health Care. Like other Low-Middle Income Countries (LMICs), health care in South Asia is a Mixed Health System, where publicly-financed government health delivery coexists with privately-financed market delivery... READ MORE


Country Wise Glimpses of Current Regulatory Frameworks for Private Clinical Establishments

Support for Training and Advocacy to Health Initiatives (SATHI)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Health is a state subject in India thus the state governments have a prerogative to make legislations to regulate private hospitals. However, the Clinical Establishments Act (CEA), 2010 was enacted by the Government of India for registering and regulating all types of public and private clinical establishments in the country, including single-doctor clinics. This is a kind of model act and has been adopted by 14 state governments and Union Territories... READ MORE


Regulation of Private Healthcare Sector in South Asian Countries

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Pune, Maharashtra, India
Different studies and accounts highlight that the private health sector in key South Asian countries has expanded within the vacuum of shrinking public health system. Low investment by governments of these countries in public health system coupled with privatization oriented policies, growing number of public-private-partnerships in healthcare sector and transfer of big proportion of funds towards private sector through publicly financed healthcare schemes in these countries has fuelled growth of the private healthcare sector. This has led to massive commercialization of healthcare in this sub-continent... READ MORE


South-Asia Learning Exchange Workshop on Patient's Rights and Private Medical Sector Accountability

Support for Training and Advocacy to Health Initiatives (SATHI)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly put forward as a remedy for lack of health system capacity, including addressing challenges associated with low health service coverage and with low community engagement in the health system.... READ MORE

Two Case Stories Highlighting violations of Patient's Rights by Private Medical Sector 

Advocate Birendra Sangwan-Activist and Petitioner for Cardiac Stent Price Capping, India 
Delhi based advocate and activist, Birendra Sangwan shared his experiences of series of petitions in the high court of Delhi on cardiac stent price capping, India..... READ MORE

Jayant Singh, Campaigner against Fortis Hospital, Gurugram, Haryana, India
Jayant Singh, father of seven year old girl, Adya Singh, who was admitted in Fortis Hospital a corporate hospital in Gurgaon, Haryana, for treatment of Dengue narrated the tragic incident of death of his daughter due to medical negligence and profiteering. READ MORE

COPASAH Social Accountability Dialogue -V
In many low and middle income countries especially in South Asia and Africa, the private healthcare sector is playing a major role in providing healthcare. With advancement in medical technology and with commercialization of healthcare, the healthcare landscape is rapidly changing in low and middle income countries. READ MORE



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