Pulse of the Industry for healthcare in India

Jugal Kishore; Aditi Yadav

Jugal Kishore Director Professor, Department of Community Medicine, VMMC & SJH, New Delhi, India
Aditi Yadav Senior Resident, Department of Community Medicine, VMMC & SJH, New Delhi, India

Keywords: Health Technology, Telemedicine, Digital Health, Biotechnology

Abstract

Industries development has revolutionized healthcare globally. Although it has many positive contributions but negative impacts are also troubling the human population. They are essential for developing and delivering medical services and products. Through innovation and technology, they provide medical devices, information, pharmaceutical and biotechnology products. Industries also galvanized economic development by jobs, healthcare delivery infrastructure and its management. Health care is the prevention and treatment of illness or disability, encompassing a range of services aimed at maintaining health and addressing medical needs.

Problems with the industries are their inherent characteristics of exploitation of natural resources, creating pollution, causing labour health and safety concerns, producing tobacco, ultra-processed foods, and sugary drinks, prioritize profit over public well-being, and industrialization of healthcare. Industries have to focus on its limitations beside generating innovative safe products and addressing public health issues. Industries are engines of innovation and growth, yet they can perpetuate harm by exploiting natural resources, polluting the environment, marketing unhealthy products like tobacco, ultra-processed foods and sugary drinks, and commercializing healthcare. For industries to be true partners in health, they must adopt responsible innovation, prioritize sustainability, align with sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and strengthen corporate social responsibility.

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