Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday urged people and civil society organizations to join the campaign to eradicate leprosy and called for intensified efforts for early detection of leprosy cases, equitable access to appropriate treatment and integrated leprosy services.
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday urged people and civil society organizations to join the campaign to eradicate leprosy and called for intensified efforts for equitable access to appropriate treatment and integrated leprosy services. India News | VP Naidu Urges People to Join the Campaign to Eradicate Leprosy.
Unbelievable as it might sound, there is a tertiary care hospital where an ICU bed is charged at just Rs 1,000 per day. The cost of tests, medicines and consumables too is a fraction of what those in most private healthcare facilities. Yet the non-profit, trust-run Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Medical Sciences (MGIMS), in Wardha district in Maharashtra, not just survives but thrives.
Apart from providing affordable care to a million outpatients, 50,000 inpatients and 1.2 lakh people in the surrounding villages through its outreach programmes, MGIMS also takes in 100 undergraduate and 80 post graduate students each year. All of this inside an annual budget of just Rs 158 crore. Divide that amount by 50,000 hospitalised patients, and it’s just Rs 31,600 per head. And remember, that’s an over estimate since consultation charges for 10 lakh outpatients and 1.2 lakh outreach patients are not factored in this calculation and nor is the cost of producing 100 doctors and 80 specialists