Use medical tourists' money to treat poor Indians: Panel

Panel pitches cross-subsidy: Corporate hospitals urged to use rich-patient revenue to fund poorer patients’ careNEW DELHI: Revenue earned from foreign patients and affluent Indians should help fund the treatment of poorer patients, the parliamentary standing committee on health and family welfare has recommended, proposing that corporate hospitals adopt a cross-subsidisation model to make advanced healthcare more affordable.The panel - headed by Samajwadi Party MP Ram Gopal Yadav - said hospitals that benefit from govt concessions such as subsidised land, tax incentives and 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) should earmark part of the revenue generated from medical tourism and high-paying patients to provide advanced tertiary care to economically weaker Indians.The recommendation is part