Healthcare Management Beyond Textbook | Part-5 | At NFSU Gandhinagar | Docthub
- October 8, 2025
- 11:42 am
In this interactive session with students from NFSU-Gandhinagar, the focus is on exploring the diverse sectors within the healthcare umbrella. The discussion begins with hospitals, which serve as the frontline institutions delivering patient care and emergency services. It then moves to diagnostics, emphasizing their role in accurate testing, screening, and disease detection. Pharmaceuticals are highlighted as a driving force in drug discovery, development, and therapeutic solutions. Insurance is presented as a crucial mechanism for ensuring financial protection and equitable access to healthcare. Finally, the importance of medical devices and healthcare IT is explored, showcasing how technology enhances efficiency, precision, and innovation in the healthcare ecosystem.
Summary
The transcript discusses recognizing ambulance and pre-hospital care—including ground and air ambulances and disaster medical teams—as a distinct sector within healthcare. It highlights the sector’s roles in emergencies, its separate business models, licensing requirements, and varying regulations across regions.
Raw Transcript
[00:00] Their suggestion is that ambulance, can we consider as a separate sector in healthcare, ambulance services?
[00:20] Manan says in disaster management also there is a health team, health care specific and health care has a specific role in disaster management. So can we have a thought of a separate sector in health care industry?
[00:40] which includes these kind of services. Yes, it also includes air ambulance and all. So, what should we call it? There is one key word maybe in.
[01:00] Now, maybe in US and other western country, this terminology is being used, we can use it that keyword to this sector is pre-hospital care if you might have come across. Let us see.
[01:20] first write it pre-hospital service or care. Now, let us discuss this pre-hospital care or service sector, what it includes and what is their role.
[01:40] in health care industry. As it is a 19th sector we have came across I also I have list down 18. Now you guys have suggested one more sector to add and we let us looked at to this sector what is going
[02:00] on in this sector and what should we consider it. First, let us evaluate with our definition criteria. It has a separate business format though hospitals has their own ambulances, but they are now the
[02:20] There are also some start-ups, they are providing ambulance services as a in collaboration with the hospitals they are also providing. So and there are air ambulance service.
[02:40] and there are health care team or medical response team in a disaster management setup. So, all that comes under this pre hospital service.
[03:00] That means any kind of medical emergency, any kind of disaster, any kind of such patient need, their role is to secure the patient's primary need of the healthcare.
[03:20] transport that patient safely, securely to a particular place maybe that at a hospital or a medical centre or maybe a inter hospital transport. There are separate
[03:40] license required I think in Gujarat you need not to have separate license for ambulance but yeah, 108 is a service by government that 108 is a government service.
[04:00] Now, in Delhi if you want to run an ambulance you would need a separate license for from RTO. No auto pollution, but they have certain criteria whether it is a basic ambulance or an advanced ambulance.
[04:20] On that basis they approve the license and things and they need to renew and all, but not every state has that requirement and the infrastructure, yes definitely the infrastructure is a separate requirement for this sector. So, we can consider it.
[04:40] So, thank you guys.
