It is well known that entrepreneurship fuels economic growth by helping build businesses that create jobs and prosperity for many more people downstream. Thus, one of the most effective means to drive sustainable outcomes is to develop entrepreneurs. It is well known that entrepreneurship fuels economic growth by helping build businesses that create jobs and prosperity for many more people downstream.
Thus, one of the most effective means to drive sustainable outcomes is to develop entrepreneurs. Today, entrepreneurship is powering businesses across industries including Technology, Retail, eCommerce, Food & Hospitality, Pharma and more.
Entrepreneurs build their businesses with investments & support from various types of funding sources. In the context of healthcare in India, various large investments (both national & FDI) are being made towards setup of large (tertiary care) centres such as hospitals, or capital intense setups such as diagnostic labs.
Given the economics for the investors, such setups are mostly coming up in urban areas, creating further gaps in healthcare access between the cities and outside. While secondary and tertiary care remains a challenge in underserved areas, primary care setups, which are the first line of defence to create a healthier population, do not receive adequate funding or support, particularly in the underserved areas.
Further, there is a massive shortage of skilled workforce in healthcare, including good doctors for primary care. And the existing ones do not have the necessary funding or support to setup their individual (retail) practices. To solve such issues, what is required is to develop entrepreneurs out of individual doctors and enable longer term sustainable models for wider access & better healthcare closer to the communities to be served.