The second edition of Healthcare Sabha 2017 started off with a welcome address by Viveka Roychowdhury, Editor, Express Healthcare & Express Pharma. She took the audience through the vision of the event and welcomed them to three days of knowledge sharing on various aspects of public health.
Referring to the allocations for healthcare in the Union Budget 2017, she stated, “ In many ways, the budget has been good to the healthcare sector. Allocation of funds was raised by 27 per cent. But inspite of this seemingly generous increase in allocation, the health sector’s share of GDP has seen only a marginal increase from 0.26 per cent in 2016-17 to 0.30 per cent in 2017-18.
Since most of the increase comes from transfers to states and union territories, which comprise 55 per cent of the health budget, this reflects the central government’s continued efforts to increase the role of the states in health, while reducing the role of the union Health ministry. And this is where Healthcare Sabha 2017 comes in.” Explaining the vision she added, “Built around the vision to co-create a manifesto for a healthy India, we hope that over today and the next two days, we will discuss, debate and arrive at recommendations towards this goal.”
Healthcare Sabha 2017
- Inaugural ceremony
- Welcome Address by Viveka Roychoudhury
- Panel discussion: Tackling the talent crunch in public health:
- Dr Subhash Chandra Parija, Director, JIPMER, Puducherry;
- Dr Farhat Mantoo; Regional Coordinator HR, MSF, South Asia;
- Prof AK Mahapatra, Chief Neurosciences Centre, AIIMS Delhi;
- Madhumita Dobe, Director- Professor & Dean, All Indian Institute of Public Health, Kolkata
- Creating a sustainable financing system for India: Dr Jitendra Sharma, Director & CEO, Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone
- “NLEM, procurement practices and patient safety : Joining the dots: Dr Suresh Saravdekar, Director, The Rural Health & Education Centre”
- One-on-one meetings
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