The third edition of Healthcare Sabha 2018 began with a welcome address by Prathiba Raju, Express Healthcare. She took the audience through the vision of the event and welcomed them to two days of knowledge sharing. The theme for this year’s Healthcare Sabha was India’s Public Health Change Strategy – Prioritise. Plan. Practise.
She jogged the audience’s memory about the past two editions where public health experts had come together to share their insights on public health policy and its implementation, and went on to explain this year’s agenda. The first edition was on ‘Universal Access to Equitable, Affordable and Quality Healthcare Services to All’ while the second edition focussed on ‘Co-creating a Manifesto for Healthy India.’
“As India’s public health ecosystem continues to evolve,” she stated, “the third edition of Healthcare Sabha invites public health leaders to work towards formulating a change strategy, built on three principles: Prioritise, Plan and Practise.” She pointed out that the central theme of the event aims to explore and debate on how India can bring in a multi-disciplinary and holistic approach across the spectrum of public health.