The significant inefficiency, dysfunctioning and acute shortage of
the healthcare delivery systems in the public sector do not match up with the
growing needs of the population, says the report.
Despite additional funding, the
continued lack of medical investment and healthcare infrastructure will present
challenges to mounting an effective response in India against Covid-19
pandemic, Fitch Solutions has said.
"The continued lack of medical funding and healthcare infrastructure inform our view for the potential epidemic to be worse in India if it is not adequately contained," Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research (a unit of Fitch Group) said in its outlook for India's pharmaceutical market, news agency PTI reported.
With 8.5 hospital beds per 10,000
citizens and eight physicians per 10,000, the country's healthcare sector is
not equipped for such a crisis.
Moreover, the significant
inefficiency, dysfunctioning and acute shortage of the healthcare delivery
systems in the public sector do not match up with the growing needs of the
population.
In addition, more than 80 per cent of
the population still does not have any significant health insurance coverage,
and approximately 68 per cent of the Indians have limited or no access to
essential medicines.
Furthermore, over the last two
decades, the availability of free medicines in public healthcare facilities has
declined from 31.2 per cent to 8.9 per cent for inpatient care, and from 17.8
per cent to 5.9 per cent for outpatient care, the rating agency said citing a
Public Health Foundation of India study.
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