Last week, the news came out that India has developed its first indigenous MRI machine, set to be installed at AIIMS Delhi by October for trials. If trail goes well, it will lower the cost of MRI scans in India for patients by around 50%. Developments like these are crucial to make health services accessible to all.
Is Make in India a solution to healthcare disparity?
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Yes, Make in India can help reduce healthcare disparity by lowering costs, improving accessibility, and boosting local innovation. Indigenous production of medical devices, like the MRI machine, reduces dependence on imports, making advanced healthcare more affordable for all.
“Make in India” can reduce costs, but true healthcare equity needs better hospitals, affordable medicines, and skilled doctors everywhere.
“Make in India” has the potential to significantly reduce healthcare disparities, but it will require comprehensive, coordinated efforts in infrastructure, policy, and training to fully achieve its promise.
All these are good measures. But an accountability in the system is also required. For example, at AIIMS Delhi, wait time for surgeries is 2.5 to 34 months. There is shortage of doctors and academic staff, while AIIMS could spend only 82 % of its allocated budget as per a news in media.
Absolutely correct.
This kind of medical equipment is a breakthrough for people who cannot afford expensive MRI scans. By developing it locally, the scanning process will become faster and more budget-friendly making advanced diagnostics accessible to everyone, not just a privileged few.
Yes, make in India can reduce the cost of medicine and so all the people can afford the treatment
yes made in india products are very good .
Government should do that for people who don’t afford and make them affordable were they can take treatment.
Yes. The current statistics hold that the number of people performing MRI scans per year are around to 10 million. The cost per MRI scan ranges around 5000 to 25000 depending on its region and type. As MRI scans are made in India, there is a possibility to avail subsidy affording free treatment . This provides a larger treatment regimen and affords a wide group of people serving humanity
Make in India is definitely promising for healthcare sector.The MRI installation is encouraging and is a concrete proof that we are progressing towards advanced medical technology.If more such facilities are made affordable and available in the long run beyond major cities,Make in India will definitely become a solution to this disparity.
Yes this initiatives are necessary for affordable healthcare .
Yes..Make in india impacts the cost and accessibility by lowering of costs, increase accessibility,and provide economical strength to country.
Yes this can bring the resolution to indian health care system by lowering the cost to individual
Make in India is definitely a solution especially in Healthcare sectors. As we can see due to the war we are struggling for gas and other things which has been importing to our country. People can have easy accessible to imaging which is a great problem solving for many conditions and physicians can have a root cause treatment protocol.
This can really make huge difference in healthcare development but it is also very important to make it available in every corner of the nation. Implementing policies for it to be even more affordable will also help in improving healthcare since we know most of the population falls under below poverty line in the country.
It can definitely reduce costs and improve access, but equitable distribution, infrastructure, and workforce strengthening remain essential for true healthcare equity
Affordability is meaningless without accessibility and accessibility is meaningless without awareness. Making medical equipments ,and that too affordable is a great achievement but what is the point if there are long waiting periods, 1 doctor serving thousands and most importantly, people in the rural areas don’t even know this exists they are not uninterested but they are disconnected from the system. I believe if we can reach the point of awareness , affordability can become accessible.
yes, Make In India is helping us overcome the disparity in accessibility of healthcare services, but we are yet to have supporting hospitals that can accommodate such machinery. Healthcare equity can be significantly achieved through this program, but it needs to be paired complimentarily with adequate hospital infrastructure development.
The true success of this indigenous machine lies in ensuring that high quality imaging remains accessible and affordable for all. It would be happy and proud of make in india, if the clinical trials are successful.
