Adopt small govt health institutions: JP Nadda to private hospitals
15 April 2015 5:33 AM IST
"Models presented by private institutions like Sir Ganga Ram Hospital should be enunciated, elaborated and emulated. And, we want institutions like you to come and 'adopt', may be a small public health institution, and replicate the work done at your places," Union Health Minister J P Nadda said here.
The minister was speaking at the 60th foundation day of the historic Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the national capital.
"This would be the real public-private-partnership, and I am not asking you to do it full time, but as they say, just adopt one small government health institution (hospital etc) and do the same work with same efficiency there, the surgeries, clinical works, among others," he said.
Nadda said his ministry was also "thinking on those lines", and wanted private bodies to be a partner in nation's growth.
The minister, applauding the work done at the Sir Ganga Ram, said, "a non-profit private health institution model like yours should be replicated elsewhere too."
He, however, said that sometimes good work done by health institutions are not "propagated enough".
"I am not saying you should stop work and talk... work should be the priority but it is also important that you make people around you aware of that work, and that I believe is lacking," he said
"You must sensitise the public representatives and show them how they can be a partner in it and contribute to it," Nadda said.
Chairman of the Hospital's Trust Society, Ashok Chandra earlier said, "We are a non-profit organisation rendering service to the society and therefore we request the Centre to exempt us from service tax." Nadda, on this issue said, "Though it is not my domain, but I will put your sentiments across to the ministry concerned."
The minister was speaking at the 60th foundation day of the historic Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the national capital.
"This would be the real public-private-partnership, and I am not asking you to do it full time, but as they say, just adopt one small government health institution (hospital etc) and do the same work with same efficiency there, the surgeries, clinical works, among others," he said.
Nadda said his ministry was also "thinking on those lines", and wanted private bodies to be a partner in nation's growth.
The minister, applauding the work done at the Sir Ganga Ram, said, "a non-profit private health institution model like yours should be replicated elsewhere too."
He, however, said that sometimes good work done by health institutions are not "propagated enough".
"I am not saying you should stop work and talk... work should be the priority but it is also important that you make people around you aware of that work, and that I believe is lacking," he said
"You must sensitise the public representatives and show them how they can be a partner in it and contribute to it," Nadda said.
Chairman of the Hospital's Trust Society, Ashok Chandra earlier said, "We are a non-profit organisation rendering service to the society and therefore we request the Centre to exempt us from service tax." Nadda, on this issue said, "Though it is not my domain, but I will put your sentiments across to the ministry concerned."
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