India’s healthcare system is unique, complex, and multifaceted involving both the government and private sector to cater to the health needs of its 1.4 billion population. Insufficient infrastructure, inadequate funding, and a shortage of trained manpower have impacted healthcare delivery for decades. Coupled with these issues, the sector is also dealing with the complex needs of an aging population; the need to keep up to date with evolving advances in technology and medicine; heightened patient expectations; cost consciousness — all this against the backdrop of the economic setback of the pandemic.
