Healthcare in new shape

The government of Jammu and Kashmir in order to give a door for providing quality Health care to people of J&K, it has said that due to the J&KHCIP will attract global investments in Health sector of J&K, promote Medical Tourism especially in Kashmir valley.

Policy and planning decisions have powerful implications for individual behaviours and public health, has an impact on the ground. The prevention of major health problems requires understanding and intervention to affect the root causes of ill health and the policies that shape and affect the root causes.

In Jammu and Kashmir, to address these problems effectively, the administration has taken several measures proactively to provide best health care services to its people.

One of the major decisions in that direction was the introduction of ‘’J&K Health Care Investment Policy (HCIP)’’ aimed at promoting private parties and entrepreneurs to set up healthcare infrastructure in the state. This Healthcare Investment Policy aims to realize the UT’s obligation of providing quality and effective healthcare to its citizens and to take healthcare service to the door steps of the masses so as to ensure availability of the complete gamut of healthcare services in the primary, secondary and tertiary care sectors to the people of the UT.

Healthcare sector in Jammu and Kashmir has shown significant progress in terms of improvement in infrastructure, manpower and health system, which is now reflected in improved healthcare indicators of the UT that have become comparatively better than those in many other states and even better than the national average, as per NFHS indicators. Despite the COVID situation, the health and medical sector took a lead in Jammu and Kashmir to attract global investment into healthcare.