Health care Delivery System in India

Your grandmother in a village near Panvel gets a fever. She walks to a small health centre. If it is serious, she is sent to a bigger hospital in town, and if that fails, to a teaching hospital in Mumbai. Meanwhile your neighbour in Belapur goes straight to a private multi-specialty hospital. Both are part of one national system, but they sit in different layers, run by different owners, under different rules. Who decides which patient goes where, and what does the law say about each layer?

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India's health care delivery system is a mixed one: a public pyramid of sub-centres, primary health centres, community health centres, district hospitals and teaching hospitals, sitting beside a very large private sector and the AYUSH systems.

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