After the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), every citizen has become a taxpayer, and it is therefore the government’s duty to provide affordable, quality healthcare for all, said G.V.S. Murthy, president of Pragyaan Sustainable Health Outcomes Foundation and affiliated with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Speaking at a seminar organised by Praja Arogya Vedika in Vijayawada on Sunday, August 24, Dr. Murthy discussed the impact of healthcare privatisation, in the context of the Andhra Pradesh government’s proposal to privatise government medical colleges. “There is no evidence anywhere in the world that people benefit from privatisation of healthcare. Corporates are usually the ones who gain,” he said, citing surveys from the United Kingdom and Germany.
