Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad NGO forum calls for hike in funds for healthcare

Hyderabad - An NGO-civil society forum has stressed the need for a coordinated effort of public, private sectors and NGOs to ensure increase in the budgetary allocations for health in developing countries. Addressing the first session at the 39th annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) here on Wednesday, WHO director (Health Systems Financing), David B. Evans, lamented that a majority of developing countries spent less than $50 per capita on health. "The per capita spending in as many as 30 member countries is less than US $ 40 a year," he said. Gopi Gopalakrishnan, Country Director of DKT International (Vietnam), pointed out that monopolistic structures (public sector) rarely delivered quality care and the public sector mechanism never cared for measuring outputs. "If you can't monitor, you can't monitor," he said. Despite high visibility, the contribution of NGOs to service delivery was negligible. There were over 1.3 million NGOs in India but contribute less than 0.7 per cent of total healthcare needs. Nemat Hajebhoy of Aga Khan Foundation, and others also spoke.

- By Special Correspondent (The Hindu)

Was browsing over some information where i bumped into this piece of news..(the text marked in red color specifically). Well, firstly I was wondering what could be the hurdles for 1.3 Million NGOs (if not all striving for better health) together to deliver a substantial result.(0.7 is nothing holding the current indian population in mind). Further opinions are welcome!!! My second concern is there are 1.3 Million NGOs in India...(again considering the stats) what is the percentage development achieved by them in overall sectors...education, health, poverty, women, children etc etc...!