At last week’s AI Summit, healthcare innovation was at the centre with AI diagnostics, predictive monitoring, and smart devices.
India clearly wants to become a med-tech manufacturing powerhouse. That ambition is strategic and necessary.
But one question stayed with me:
As industrial incentives accelerate growth, will they also strengthen public health?
Nearly half of India’s health spending still comes directly from households. That means affordability and access are not abstract ideas. They shape real decisions families make every day.
Innovation scales. Markets grow.
But equity is not automatic.
In healthcare, fairness does not emerge simply because technology advances. It depends on how incentives are structured, how procurement works, and whether public systems are strong enough to anchor growth.
India can lead in AI and med-tech. The deeper test is whether that leadership first serves its own patients.
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Shivani Pandey 