Apollo Hospitals, the pioneer of integrated healthcare delivery in India, along with the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) inaugurated an annual healthcare conference FICCI Heal 2014 (http://www.ficci-heal.com/), with the theme “Innovation Enabling Access”. The conference was held on 1st – 2nd September 2014 and focused on various opportunities and challenges to promote innovation which can change the current paradigms and move towards better, efficient and cheaper methods for accessible, affordable and quality healthcare in India.
Elaborating on the conference theme, Ms. Sangita Reddy, Chairperson, FICCI Health Services Committee & Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group, says, “Across industries, disruptive innovations have brought forth greater efficiencies, efficacy, economy and higher quality. The healthcare sector too needs to nurture such innovations as they are the need of the hour. Our nation like most other across the world is standing at the precipice of crisis created by the burden of disease and woefully inadequate healthcare infrastructure. Over the last four years, FICCI has been making sincere efforts to encourage health innovators offering solutions to deliver care more effectively while improving access and quality from the grassroots level.”
Dr. Didar Singh, Secretary General, FICCI while supporting the central theme of the conference announced “We propose to create a virtual pooling of industry CSR funds by creating IISH (Indian Industry in Solidarity for Health) Kosh to channelize funds into priority area in healthcare identified by the government. FICCI Health Services Committee is keen to work with the Health Ministry to develop a directory of healthcare activities based on the priorities of the government so that the CSR funds are channelized in the right direction to support National Health Assurance mandate of the government”.
In his Keynote Address, Mr Sunil Wadhwani, Founding Donor, Wadhwani Initiative for Sustainable Health shared that we should develop a national ecosystem for healthcare innovation, and create a computerised knowledge hub. He further shared that out of the total innovations in the country; we should select the best 300 to 400 innovations and raise 200 million dollars to promote them.
In her Keynote Address Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director- SEARO, WHO emphasised the need of prevention rather than cure. She shared that in India there are two types of needs in healthcare sector, Basic needs and Health innovation. She further shared the three areas in which India needs innovation, which are innovation in R&D, Health innovation, i.e. technical & devices and Household innovation.
Expressing his views, on the Medical Technology sector, Dr GSK Velu, Co-Chair, FICCI Health Services Committee, and Founder & MD, Trivitron Group of Companies shared in his concluding remarks that the Medical Technology segment needs more focus and attention in India due to very high import dependency and lack of large scale domestic manufacturing initiatives due to several challenges faced by local producers. Keeping in line with our new government's vision to make India Self Reliant with local manufacturing initiatives, FICCI has partnered with E&Y to bring this comprehensive knowledge paper to showcase the challenges faced by this Industry and FICCI will be happy to work with Govt of India to create ecosystem for making Medical Technology Segment Self Reliant by facilitating continuous interactions with various stakeholders in this Industry."
FICCI also released two Knowledge Papers on ‘Healthcare Innovations and Domestic Manufacturing’ and ‘Medical Value Travel in India’.
About Apollo Hospitals Group
Dr. Prathap C Reddy, the architect of modern Indian healthcare, launched the first corporate hospital in India in 1983. An integrated healthcare company, the Apollo Hospitals Group has a network of over 9000 beds across 52 hospitals, over 1600 pharmacies, diagnostic clinics, health insurance services, and clinical research divisions with a focus on epidemiological studies, stem cell and genetic research. The Apollo Hospitals Group is the busiest transplant program in the world today.
To develop skilled human resource for the burgeoning need of superior healthcare delivery, the Apollo Hospitals Group has 10 nursing colleges and two hospital management colleges. In a rare honor, the Government of India released a commemorative postage stamp on the Apollo Hospitals Group in recognition of our contribution to Indian health care in 2009. Apollo, for over 30 years, has continuously excelled and maintained leadership in medical innovation, world-class clinical services and cutting edge research. The Apollo Hospitals are consistently ranked amongst the best hospitals globally for advanced medical services and seven of its hospitals are accredited by Joint Commission International (JCI). Apollo Hospitals Chennai is currently ranked by the Week Hansa Survey as the Best Private Hospital in India.
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