Medical Infrastructure and Not Medical Insurance Should Be the Focal Point to Tackle Pandemic in Developing Countries Like India: A Study

India is experiencing a brutal onslaught of second severe savage of corona wave and its ominous impact on lives and livelihood. A shaking health care system and a tottering economy are staring on our face. The citizen as well as the government is realizing that there is a vast scope of improvement in the medical infrastructure throughout the nation. The present heath care system proving to be inadequate to serve this vast population. The country is realizing the shortage of medical staff, frontline health workers and over and above a great paucity of proper medical infrastructure set up. This is an ominous sign. India needs more number of hospitals, trained doctors, nurses and other trained health care workers to meet several challenges in its heath care system. Considering these it is imperative to focus on set up of medical infrastructure instead of giving emphasis on medical insurance. For this government should formulate proper policies on set up of medical infrastructure and should spend more on public health care. In-fact the average spending by government on public health care for last five years is 1.28% of Gross Domestic product (GDP), which is even lesser than the average spending of OECD countries i.e 8% of GDP. A study has been made to prove that medical infrastructure and not the medical insurance scheme like Ayushman Bharat Yojana is the need of the hour.