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Healthcare Conclave 2017 Aims To Decode NHP 2017
Express Healthcare
|October 2017
An MoU was exchanged between Healthcare Skill Council and CII and a Report on 'Digital Health: Transforming Healthcare' was released during the conclave
Healthcare Conclave2017, organised by CIIfor western region was recently held in Mumbai. The theme of the conclave was 'National Health Policy – A New Era in Healthcare'. The conference aimed to decode the National Health Policy 2017, presenting key features of the policy and highlight emerging imperatives for different stakeholders in the times to come. The day kick started with a welcome address by Rishi Bagla, Chairman, CII Maharashtra State Council & Director, OMR Bagla Automative Systems India followed by Joy Chakraborty, Chairman, CII WR Healthcare Conclave 2017 & Chairman, CII WR Core Group on Healthcare sharing the vision and mission of the summit. Dr Deepak Sawant, Minister, Public Health and Family Welfare, Government of Maharashtra gave the Chief Guest address. During his address Dr Sawant went on to explain the purpose of the National health Policy and informed about the upcoming initiatives in this regard.
An MoU was exchanged between Healthcare Skill Council and CII and a Report on 'Digital Health: Transforming Healthcare' was released during the conclave. Amit Mookim, MD, South Asia, QuintilesIMS gave an overview of the report. The inaugural session saw a special address by Colin Wells, British Deputy High Commissioner, British Deputy High Commission who deliberated the UK perspective. The keynote address was given by Kewal Handa, Former MD, Pfizer India & Non-Executive Chairman, Union Bank of India, wherein he expounded on how public and private sector should demarcate their role, with government focussing on being the provider leaving the delivery to the private sector. Dr Vivek Desai, Member, CII WR Core Group on Healthcare gave the concluding remarks for the session, that along with quantity, there should be a significant increase in quality of healthcare provided, and highlighted the increase in volumes will subsequently bring down the cost of healthcare.
This story is from the October 2017 edition of Express Healthcare.
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