Experts seek private investment in healthcare sector
Updated Jan 30, 2021, 7:00 am IST
Other hospital administrators, however, believe that infrastructure will remain inadequate unless the private sector chips in.
Healthcare professionals have urged Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to encourage private investment in the healthcare sector. (Representational Photo:ANI)
HYDERABAD: In the wake of the national crisis that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused, healthcare professionals have urged Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to encourage private investment in the healthcare sector by offering tax incentives in her forthcoming Union Budget.
Though the government has indicated that it would increase healthcare spend to three per cent of the economy, Dr Riyaz M Khan, CEO, Continental Hospitals, feels a major portion of it should be spent on primary healthcare.
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The Covid-19 pandemic should serve as an eye-opener for the government to increase allocation for the health sector in the Union Budget 2020-21, feel representatives from the sector.Pointing out that the pandemic exposed the .
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