COIMBATORE,JAN 13
India requires rs.150,000 crore investment to provide at least two beds per 1000 population by 2010, a senior laparosopic surgeon said today.
Though a total of rs.96,000 crore have been invested in the healthcare sector, India has only 1.3 beds per 1000 at present, with a total of 14 lakh hospital beds, Dr M G Bhat, Director, Department of Gastroenterology and Laparoscopic Surgery, Wockhardt Hospital, Bangalore told reporters here.
To reach at least two beds per 1000,the country needed another 14 lakh hospital beds,with an investment of rs150,000 crore, in the coming four to five years, Bhat said.
Bhat,here to inaugurate a tele-training and tele-medicine Centre at the private V G Medical Centre and Hospitals, said health care sector was growing at the rate of 15 per cent.
With insurance schemes playing a major role, India is projected to be a health hub by 2015, he said.
Dr V Venkatesh, chief of the Centre, said that there has been unprecedented growth and development in Information and Communication Tehnology, resulting in establishment of 175 telemedicine units in suburban and rural India and 15 in tertiary care hospitals.
The newly set up centre would provide advanced training to the surgeons in various fields, for which the Centre would be connected to leading hospitals, like Wockhardt and Manipal Hospitals in Bangalore and Global at Hyderabad, he said.
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