Indian healthcare News

The 7.7 per cent of cyber attack incidence in the Indian healthcare industry translates into over 71 lakh records. CloudSEK is among the entities that provides cyber threat intelligence to Indian cyber security watchdog CERTin. The data collated by CloudSEK shows that there have already been 1.87 lakh records in the first four months of 2022.

Despite rapid economic growth, India was ranked 143rd, below Comoros and Ghana," the first annual assessment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) health performance published in the Lancet and launched at a special event at the UN General Assembly in New York said.

There is a huge demand-supply gap in making quality healthcare accessible and affordable to the masses

Oil-rich Nigeria, West Africa's biggest nation, has seen its citizens spend millions of dollars on medical treatment in India due to an inadequate health delivery sector, but this is changing as the Indian government and private healthcare providers are turning to invest locally to benefit from this huge market.

The sector, which was at USD 73.92 billion in 2011, is expected to grow at a CAGR of 16 percent to USD 280 billion in 2020, it said.

"The ADB has approved a USD 300 million loan to support India's NUHM ," an ADB statement said.