{"id":48368,"date":"2025-11-06T20:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/?p=48368"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:50:03","slug":"idpd-urges-punjab-govt-to-increase-health-budget-for-direct-public-care-reject-corporate-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/?p=48368","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Government must immediately stop its efforts toward privatization of the health infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Punjab Government must immediately stop its efforts toward privatization of the health infrastructure<\/div>\n
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This move will have a severely negative impact on the health of the poor people of Punjab \u2014 Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD)<\/div>\n
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Ferozepur, November 6, 2025: The Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has taken serious note of recent news reports about the Punjab Government\u2019s efforts to privatize the state\u2019s health infrastructure. The organization considers this a betrayal of the government\u2019s own vision of a \u201chealth revolution\u201d in Punjab.<\/div>\n
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Dr. Arun Mitra, President of IDPD, and Dr. Inderveer Gill, Member of the Central Committee of IDPD, informed the press that the upcoming medical colleges in Sangrur and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar will now be opened under the PPP (Public Private Partnership) model through the Punjab Infrastructure Development Board (PIDB), and tenders for the same have already been floated.<\/div>\n
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The key questions that arise are:<\/div>\n
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Will the fees in these colleges remain the same as those in government medical colleges?<\/div>\n
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What provisions will be made for low fees or scholarships for poor students?<\/div>\n
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Will the government ensure that health services under this model remain free for all?<\/div>\n
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Similarly, under the Operation and Management model of PIDB, evaluation teams are being sent to government hospitals in Rajpura, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur, Munak, and Moga. If this is not considered the first step toward privatization, then what else can it be called?<\/div>\n
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Across India and Punjab, in the post-COVID period, the cost of both healthcare services and medical education has been rising sharply. Poor and working-class families neither have the financial means to afford medical treatment nor to educate their children in the field of medicine.<\/div>\n
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IDPD directly questions the government whether these recent privatization initiatives will be able to resolve such fundamental issues \u2014 or will they make access to healthcare and treatment even more difficult for common people?<\/div>\n
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It is important to note that the Central Government is already pushing to hand over the health sector to corporate entities. It now appears that the Punjab Government is following the same path in delivering health services.<\/div>\n
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It has been observed across the world that countries where the government itself provides healthcare services have far better health indicators compared to those where healthcare is delivered through the private sector or insurance companies. Therefore, instead of moving toward privatization, the Punjab Government should increase the health budget and directly ensure healthcare services for the people.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Punjab Government must immediately stop its efforts toward privatization of the health infrastructure This move will have a severely negative impact on the health of the poor people of Punjab \u2014 Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) Ferozepur, November 6, 2025: The Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has taken serious note of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48371,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48368\/revisions\/48371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}