Powerful, insightful & thoughtful webinar today on India's healthcare crisis during #COVID__19.

Thank you @SonaliVaid @inayat_s_kakar @AnooBhu @Rukmini @RemaNagarajan @malini_aisola @VidyaKrishnan!!

Video:

"It is not that the pandemic has broken India's health system. It was already broken. Pandemic is not the right time to fix it. But when this is over, can we please use this chance to fix things?" @AnooBhu

Lots of good suggestions on how to fix India's healthcare system:

1. Right to health must be a political/election issue
2. Need to advocate for "one nation, one healthcare" approach
3. India has to dramatically increase spend on health (2.5% of GDP nowhere close to sufficient)

4. Public sector must improve quality of care/service
5. Private sector must be better regulated
6. Private hospital billing must be audited
7. Private hospitals must be more transparent & provide itemized bills
8. Medicines & products must be validated before marketing

Indian public has low confidence in the public health sector and does not trust the private health sector either.

Neither sector can adequately deal with India's health needs, especially during a crisis.

Both sectors have to contribute & the government must set norms & policies