NEW DELHI: India has been placed second from bottom in a health system transparency index, released by KPMG today, which also highlighted that the country is still “woefully” short in terms of healthcare infrastructure.
Noting that key information were largely not available to the public, the report called for “mandating” public reporting of health outcomes, tariffs and pricing, and patient satisfaction if the country needed to progress further.
“India achieved an overall transparency score of 36 per cent, placing it in the bottom fifth tier among countries on the transparency index,” according to a study from KPMG International, “Through the looking glass; A practical path to improving healthcare through transparency”.
Among 32 countries analysed in the report, India was only better than China, which achieved an overall transparency score of 32 per cent and was placed at the bottom.
Countries like Japan, Greece and South Africa comparatively fared better than India on the transparency index with scores of 46 per cent, 43 per cent and 37 per cent respectively.
Health system transparency of 32 countries were compared while the study mapped 27 indicators across six dimensions of transparency to provide an individual score for each country.
“An analysis of the results shows that India achieved its highest transparency scores for ‘Governance’ (44 per cent), ‘Personal Healthcare Data’ (43 per cent), and ‘Finance’ (42 per cent),” the study said. (AGENCIES)
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