There is widespread disparity in the availability of medical facilities in India. While people living in urban areas have access to the latest super-specialty hospitals, the country’s vast rural population have to remain content with only primary medical facilities. Moreover, government hospitals located in urban and semi-urban areas have poor hygienic conditions and insufficient availability of medical facilities. At the same time, the number of private hospitals with the latest medical facilities coming up all across the country has witnessed a tremendous pace of growth in recent years. In urban areas, the rising income levels have made high-end medical facilities a lot more affordable to a wider section of the population. However, the government has provided a lot of encouragement to secondary health facilities and combined with the growing trend of health insurance within the country, medical facilities are all set to be on the growth fast track. Hide this