A vision for better healthcare in India

 Which the project partners hope will initiate the construction of a new generation of modular buildings to improve healthcare provision throughout India, and, in the process, generate significant reciprocal trade opportunities for both UK and Indian suppliers to the sector. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.

The joint-venture project and associated JV company, 3DiFM, have two overarching goals. The first is to facilitate the contribution of UK public and private sector healthcare infrastructure expertise, knowledge, and resources, to a massive Indian Government-funded healthcare building programme already under way as part of the country’s 12th ‘Five-Year Plan’. This ‘Plan’, unveiled in 2012, entails both the construction of a network of new healthcare and training facilities, and the refurbishment and upgrading of over 600 existing district hospitals across the vast nation. The second goal is, in the process, to help boost reciprocal trading opportunities for both UK and Indian suppliers to the sector, and, consequently, to boost both countries’ GDP. To tell the story properly, it is necessary to go back to mid-February of this year, when I first met with Ian Hinitt in London to discuss the project. At that juncture he explained that, in just three months, the initiative had already made rapid progress, following three successful visits to India by he and several of his business associates at the new company, 3DiFM, since last December.

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