Highlights of the report
This report, a product of joint collaboration between Embassy of Sweden in India, Swecare, and the Swedish Trade Council (STC) in India, aims to understand the current situation of healthcare and map out the various segments that form a part of it, to identify potential opportunities that exist for Swedish stakeholders within the Indian healthcare segment. More specifically, it aims to explore the opportunities available in the selected areas of public health, lifestyle diseases, infectious diseases, elderly and geriatric care, medical education, and frugal engineering....
The Healthcare sector is rapidly emerging as one of the mainstays of the Indian economic growth.
In the coming years, the industry is likely to witness a compounded annual growth rate of around
17%-18% and is expected to be worth around SEK 1700 billion by 2016.
The growth is likely to be driven by various government programs that are focusing on provision of
affordable healthcare services to the country‘s billion plus population. In addition, demand of high
quality healthcare services by the rising middle class of the county is leading to growth in
investments from the private sector. Other factors such as increase in penetration of medical
insurance and medical tourism are likely to add to this.
Public Health: Alcohol abuses are reaching at an alarming level in Chandigarh because of
easy and cheap availability of alcohol from neighbouring Haryana. The city accounts for almost
6% of the total liquor consumed across India per annum. Attributed to high income levels in the
city, the problem of drug abuse is going acute in the city. The state government of Punjab and
Haryana are laying considerable focus to reduce drug and alcohol abuse. For example, the
Punjab Government is running a counselling centre at Chandigarh for drug addicts. The
addicts are given free treatment, Yoga Therapy and counselling services as well as family
counselling services are provided by qualified psychiatrists.
Lifestyle Disease: Due to higher cost of operation in Delhi, a number of companies have
started setting up their offices and centres in Chandigarh. Along with changing lifestyle
patterns, the high stress levels on the professional front have led to the emergence of various
lifestyle related disease including diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. Hence,
the requirement for counselling institutes and consultants is expected to rise in the city. Also,
various hospitals have started focusing on establishment of specialty treatment centres for
these diseases.
http://swecare.se/Portals/swecare/Documents/India-Healthcare-Mapping-Study.pdf
This report, a product of joint collaboration between Embassy of Sweden in India, Swecare, and the Swedish Trade Council (STC) in India, aims to understand the current situation of healthcare and map out the various segments that form a part of it, to identify potential opportunities that exist for Swedish stakeholders within the Indian healthcare segment. More specifically, it aims to explore the opportunities available in the selected areas of public health, lifestyle diseases, infectious diseases, elderly and geriatric care, medical education, and frugal engineering....
The Healthcare sector is rapidly emerging as one of the mainstays of the Indian economic growth.
In the coming years, the industry is likely to witness a compounded annual growth rate of around
17%-18% and is expected to be worth around SEK 1700 billion by 2016.
The growth is likely to be driven by various government programs that are focusing on provision of
affordable healthcare services to the country‘s billion plus population. In addition, demand of high
quality healthcare services by the rising middle class of the county is leading to growth in
investments from the private sector. Other factors such as increase in penetration of medical
insurance and medical tourism are likely to add to this.
Public Health: Alcohol abuses are reaching at an alarming level in Chandigarh because of
easy and cheap availability of alcohol from neighbouring Haryana. The city accounts for almost
6% of the total liquor consumed across India per annum. Attributed to high income levels in the
city, the problem of drug abuse is going acute in the city. The state government of Punjab and
Haryana are laying considerable focus to reduce drug and alcohol abuse. For example, the
Punjab Government is running a counselling centre at Chandigarh for drug addicts. The
addicts are given free treatment, Yoga Therapy and counselling services as well as family
counselling services are provided by qualified psychiatrists.
Lifestyle Disease: Due to higher cost of operation in Delhi, a number of companies have
started setting up their offices and centres in Chandigarh. Along with changing lifestyle
patterns, the high stress levels on the professional front have led to the emergence of various
lifestyle related disease including diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. Hence,
the requirement for counselling institutes and consultants is expected to rise in the city. Also,
various hospitals have started focusing on establishment of specialty treatment centres for
these diseases.
http://swecare.se/Portals/swecare/Documents/India-Healthcare-Mapping-Study.pdf