Moving Ahead With Clear Focus
Smt. Smriti Irani, Minister of Women and Child Development, Government of India emphasized on a stronger collaboration between private and the public sector players lead to building healthy India for a better tomorrow Healthcare CSR best practices were highlighted and facilitated at the Nathealth Annual Summit. Nathealth - The Healthcare Federation of India held its 8th Annual Summit on the theme, “Re-building, Re-structuring and Re-imagining resilient healthcare systems in India in a post pandemic era” recently. The summit aimed to unite industry and the government together in one platform to discuss, deliberate and pave the path for a stronger, resilient health system in India which is future ready to tackle any unprecedented emergencies. The two-day summit had a line-up of over 120 speakers comprising top government policymakers, leaders from hospitals, medical technology and diagnostics sectors, insurance, medical education, pharmaceuticals, global multi-stakeholder organizations, start-ups, investors, and global domain experts. Overall, the summit was attended by almost 5000 delegates from the healthcare fraternity and related fields.
The Summit focused on three critical themes of current times led by top Indian healthcare leaders. The plenary session was led by Dr. Ashutosh Raghuvanshi, Vice President-Nathealth MD & CEO, Fortis Hospitals focused on building a resilient healthcare system in India that prioritizes equity and access to take a people-centric approach by bringing in other sectors as well.
The second plenary session was led by Ms. Ameera Shah, Secretary-Nathealth, MD, Metropolis India focused on Re-structuring health care financing for alternate care delivery and other innovative models to explore new ways to raise funds, allocate resources in the optimum manner to ensure equity and quality healthcare for everyone.
The third plenary session was led by Dr. Shravan Subramanyam, SVP Nathealth and President and CEO, GE Healthcare India & South Asia and Managing Director, Wipro GE Healthcare that focused on Re-imagining integrated care delivery through digital adoption and supply chain innovation. Amid the acute resources shortages as seen during the pandemic, digital collaboration on patient recoveries, testing numbers, vaccine outreach and procurement of crucial supplies highlight the need for out-of-the-box supply chain models, leveraging the potential of digital health, telemedicine, and home care, and harnessing the contribution of medical technology and pharmaceutical sector.
The summit also hosted the business opportunity pavilion. This was an opportunity for everyone to learn from various stakeholders from around the world who are building highly innovative models in healthcare which has proved to be highly resilient during the pandemic and has the potential to become the ‘next big thing’ in this new era of uncertainties. At the same time, it presented new opportunities to collaborate with each other to create new win-win outcomes.
The award ceremony was presided over by Smt. Smriti Irani, Minister of Women and Child Development, Government of India.
Apollo Hospital Groups CSR project, Total Health lifted the champion’s title. Dr. Lal PathLabs. Ltd CSR project, LPL Academy for Laboratory Medicine (Skill Development and Livelihood Generation in the area of healthcare) were the first runner up. Roche Diagnostics India’s CSR project, Project Roshni were the second runner up. DeepTek Medical Imaging Private Limited’s CSR project, DeepTek Medical Imaging Private Limited were the third runner up
Smt. Smriti Irani, Minister of Women and Child Development, Government of India, said, “India would not have survived the devastating waves of the COVID-19 pandemic without the greatest support from the healthcare workforce. Almost 6.6 million Indian women served the country during the pandemic as doctors, nurses, and grassroot healthcare workers, visiting door to door, ensuring that basic COVID protocol and hygiene is followed, and the health of rural population is taken care of.”
Speaking about the summit Dr. Harsh Mahajan, President – Nathealth and Founder and Chief Radiologist, Mahajan Imaging, said, “Health is now a global priority, and it is imperative for health systems around the world to rebuild themselves to be much resilient and robust in readiness for medical crises in future. Nathealth has been successfully organizing annual summits to address key issues significant for the Indian healthcare ecosystem and engage with all stakeholders across sectors with an aim to improve access and quality of care through leveraging innovation and technology. The 8th Annual Summit of Nathealth has successfully discussed the important learnings from the pandemic, shed light on the global best practices from industry leaders in the healthcare ecosystem from start-ups to philanthropic organizations, contributed towards creating new operating mechanisms, harness knowledge and technology to ensure accessibility and affordability of healthcare services – that holds utmost importance especially in the post-pandemic era.”
On a conclusive note we can say that, Nathealth has been created with the vision to “Be the credible and unified voice in improving access and quality of healthcare”. Leading healthcare service providers, medical technology providers (devices & equipment), diagnostic service providers, health insurance companies, health education institutions, healthcare publishers and other stakeholders have come together to build it as a common platform to power the next wave of progress in Indian healthcare.
