Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 12: Government today said that Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode in the health sector has been conceived for the help of the patients.
Keeping in view the financial constraints, Task Force on Health & Medical Education Sector in a meeting chaired by Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah felt that wherever non-availability of funds will come in the way of installation of machinery for better health care, Government would involve private sector in the interest of patient care on the terms and conditions set by the Government, a spokesman said.
“It is only a small group with vested interests who oppose the move on one pretext or the other to safeguard their interests. The fact is that under the PPP mode diagnostic machinery would be used by hospital authorities as they are using their own machinery round the clock and the charges would be as determined by the Government”, the spokesman further said.
Not only this, he said that the students, faculty and doctors can use the machinery as freely as they would in case of the facilities owned by the hospital, adding “this is not the first State in the country adopting PPP mode for installation of machinery. Several States like Himachal Pradesh have already adopted the practice”.
“It is not the question of privatizing State hospitals but to facilitate general public with 24×7 sophisticated diagnostic facilities at the Government approved rates/conditions”, the spokesman said.
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