Provide Tasty, Nutritious And Reasonably Rated Food At The Hospital Case Study
17. Provide Tasty, Nutritious and Reasonably Priced Food at the Hospital Premises:
Tasty, nutritious and reasonably-priced food available at the hospital premises helps the patients and their relatives. Thus, streamlined dietary services and supply of quality food products improves and aids in the patient’s recovery process.
General Suggestions based on findings of the study:
1. Urgent Need to Implement the Various Public Health Care Reforms:
Public health care sector reforms have to be brought in by the government to ensure more public funding on health care, focus on both preventative and curative health care, and guarantee even more access to health care for the underprivileged sections of the society. The government needs to invest in ‘Swastha India’ by uplifting existing public health infrastructure, creating new primary health centres, promoting public-private partnership models, enabling indigenous medical systems, encouraging national research and development in the field of cheap yet effective medicines. In order to meet primary health care needs in the country, the government should provide essential and generic drugs and diagnostics free of cost for all and …show more content…
Introduce a Health Cess to Finance the Various Public Health Care Policies:
Introduction of a ‘Health Cess’ may look difficult to achieve, but the governments can consider health cess on products and services considered to be detrimental for health or society such as alcohol, tobacco, fatty, salty and sugary foods etc. Such new 'sin tax' or 'health cess' on 'demerit goods' like tobacco and alcohol, can bring in additional revenue which can aid the government’s efforts in increasing the investment in public health. Globally, this is considered as a key means for the government to generate additional revenue to be utilized for health programmes.
3. Allocate Resources to revamp the existing primary health care facilities in line with “Mohalla Dispensaries” in New
Tasty, nutritious and reasonably-priced food available at the hospital premises helps the patients and their relatives. Thus, streamlined dietary services and supply of quality food products improves and aids in the patient’s recovery process.
General Suggestions based on findings of the study:
1. Urgent Need to Implement the Various Public Health Care Reforms:
Public health care sector reforms have to be brought in by the government to ensure more public funding on health care, focus on both preventative and curative health care, and guarantee even more access to health care for the underprivileged sections of the society. The government needs to invest in ‘Swastha India’ by uplifting existing public health infrastructure, creating new primary health centres, promoting public-private partnership models, enabling indigenous medical systems, encouraging national research and development in the field of cheap yet effective medicines. In order to meet primary health care needs in the country, the government should provide essential and generic drugs and diagnostics free of cost for all and …show more content…
Introduce a Health Cess to Finance the Various Public Health Care Policies:
Introduction of a ‘Health Cess’ may look difficult to achieve, but the governments can consider health cess on products and services considered to be detrimental for health or society such as alcohol, tobacco, fatty, salty and sugary foods etc. Such new 'sin tax' or 'health cess' on 'demerit goods' like tobacco and alcohol, can bring in additional revenue which can aid the government’s efforts in increasing the investment in public health. Globally, this is considered as a key means for the government to generate additional revenue to be utilized for health programmes.
3. Allocate Resources to revamp the existing primary health care facilities in line with “Mohalla Dispensaries” in New