Healthcare Sector

Union Budget 2021: Banking, health, infra sectors welcome announcements; hospitality, tourism regret lack of immediate support

Hospitality and Tourism roughly account for 10 percent of India's GDP and employ nearly 9 percent of India's working population and yet, it failed to find space in the Union Budget, FHRAI vice-president Gurbaxish Singh Kohli said

Union Budget 2021: Healthcare likely to be top priority, COVID-19 pandemic highlighted its 'fragility', says survey

The Assocham-Primus Partners survey found that 67.3% of the respondents expect the allocation of a fund to 'modernise existing primary healthcare infrastructure'

Union Budget 2021: Govt should invest in clinical trials, enable policies to empower pharma sector

With poor historical spends on healthcare, there is an urgent need to raise the allocation substantially for health as a proportion of GDP

Union Budget 2021: Timely dissemination of vaccine, easy financial conditions may trigger growth in economy

With the near-term math upended by the pandemic, a realistic roadmap would be a timely guidepost to aid the Centre and states formulate their deficit and debt targets over the next 3-5 years.

Union Budget 2021: Healthcare should be accorded ‘National Priority’ status

It is crucial that the government provides appropriate fiscal incentives and creates a sustainable public policy to encourage investment in private healthcare infrastructure

COVID-19 pandemic: Private hospitals in India running losses, despite ‘high’ prices

The stark difference between treatment costs at private and public hospitals during the pandemic has rekindled the debate: How is it that private hospitals, despite their exorbitant bills, claim that they are charging patients their best

Mahindra Holidays to first reopen resorts near metro cities post-lockdown; will ensure guest experience is contactless, says CEO

The Mahindra Group firm has currently suspended operations at its resorts in compliance with the government directives.

Coronavirus leaves private healthcare sector in financial distress, in need of stimulus: FICCI-EY study

The private healthcare sector in the country is witnessing an unprecedented slowdown due to the outbreak of Covid-19 in India and the resultant lockdown, according to a FICCI-EY study

Budget 2020: A mixed bag for healthcare services, pharma sector; additional duties on medical devices to hike costs for consumers

While one of the key focus areas for this Budget 2020-21 on socio-welfare front is to widen the reach of affordable healthcare services, it also lays emphasis on government policy of ‘Make in India’.

Online learning solution Impelsys makes India foray with mobile platform for upskilling health sector

Impelsys hosts multiple digitised courses curated by knowledge partners and domain experts.