Famous for providing affordable heart care to thousands, eminent cardiac surgeon Devi Prasad Shetty feels India can become the first country in the world to prove that healthcare can be de-linked from affluence. “Healthcare is not very important for our politicians as we are a young country. It is still not an issue which can get votes,” Karnataka-based Shetty told IANS in an interview here. “For providing cheap and good quality healthcare to the people we do not need any additional funding from the government, but just good policies,” the Padma Bhushan recipient said. “We can show the world that good healthcare is not linked to affluence,” he said. Shetty said: “For the last some years we have been hounding the government with a special scheme for cheap healthcare which entails taking a nominal amount from every person who uses a mobile phone in the country and setting up a health insurance scheme”. He said if the 900 million mobile phone users in the country pay Rs.20 per month, “we...
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