Accessibility to quality healthcare: Delivery of healthcare services to two lesser Indias

The session will bring together a multi-stakeholder group comprising HSPs, policy-makers, healthcare NGOs, service providers and consultants to debate upon India's inherently varied socio-economic landscape, and its obvious impact in not only increasing healthcare infrastructure density across the country, but also, more importantly, increasing penetration of provision of healthcare services to the disparate income groups in the metros, smaller cities, and the vast rural areas.

Debate: The debate will address the role played by the respective enablers, be it industry - HSPs or vendors - or non-industry actors - policy-makers and consultants - and the challenges faced in increasing penetration of healthcare infrastructure for the bourgeoning middle and middle-upper in India’s tier I and tier II cities, and increasing penetration for the Indian Below Poverty Level (BPL) and aspirant income groups spread across India’s developing cities and rural masses.

Technical Workshop: The Technical Workshop (Part II) will look to provide solutions to the analyses derived from the Debate part of the session. It will look to address the initiatives that need to be conceived and possibly framed in order to enable greater access to healthcare services across the varied income groups across the Indian diaspora.

Recommendation: The Recommendation (Part III) will round out the session proceedings by tying together the solutions derived from the Technical Workshop into a singular cohesive vision – to provide a roadmap ahead for the issue of accessibility.

Quality in healthcare: What is the benchmark for minimum quality standards?

Chairperson: Mr. Ajay Pitre, Managing Director, Sushrut-Adler Group

Panelist: Dr. S. Eswara Reddy, Assistant Drugs Controller (India) at HQ, CDSCO

Panelist: Dr. B.K. Rana, Deputy Director- NABH, Quality Council of India

Panelist: Mr. R. A. Venkitachalam, Vice President & Managing Director, UL Emerging Markets Region

Panelist: Ms. Ala Sankaran, Chief Quality Officer - Global Hospitals Group India

Session Facilitator: Dr. Meera Razdaan, Consultant

Panelist: Dr. Anil Pareek, President – Medical Affairs & Clinical Research, IPCA Laboratories Ltd.

Panelist: Mr. Sanjay Datta, Head – Consumer Services, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd.

Panelist: Dr. Narayan H.K.V., Medical Superintendent, Tata Memorial Hospital

Project Partners: Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus, Essen

Stephan von Bandemer, Institut Arbeit und Technik, Gelsenkirchen

Dr. med. Uli Schmucker, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald

Project Partners: Onco Med, Bochum

Vote of thanks

Mr. Udo Schuertzmann, Managing Director, Messe Duesseldorf India