Well timed article articulating the need to take serious look on the health systems holistically in the back drop of COVID19.
India always had public hospitals and private in charitable platform. While public institutions suffered from bureaucracy and inefficiency but best skill still available, the private sector has slipped from charity to MBA managed performance based bottom line and top line models. Corporate vehicle instead tax benefits embedded trusts in recent decades signify the new ideology.The input cost on account of Human Resources basically super skilled medical graduates makes it almost impossible for the present private hospitals to join the Government efforts to contain the COVID 19 type epidemic which will be frequent if not rare in the future times.
So what is to be in short and long run.
1) Reduce the cost and years of medical education. Modern medicine is no more a skill except surgical intervention, but test driven diagnostics.
2) Promote cooperative sector based hospitals along the side of hospital corporates.
3)WHO should actually partner the build and operate international hospitals partnering with countries.
4) Let corporate hospitals exist to prevent the rich and powerful cornering the public facilities.
5) Immediately establish an apex national regulatory body for hospitals.

Above are some of my thoughts. Post Covid I expect the world leaders to sit in a post war action table to draw a new order. May be a new UN and other world organisations to promote democracy and transparency in Governance. There is no better time than the present one to believe and adopt Vasudaiva Kutumbakam