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Healthcare has become one of India's largest sector, both in terms of revenue and employment. Healthcare comprises hospitals, medical devices, clinical trials, outsourcing telemedicine, medical tourism, health insurance and medical equipment. The Indian healthcare sector is growing at a brisk pace due to its strengthening coverage, services and increasing expenditure by public as well as private players.
Indian healthcare system is categorized into two major components: public and private. The public healthcare system comprises limited secondary and tertiary care institutions in key cities and focuses on providing basic healthcare facilities in the form of primary healthcare centres (PHCs) in rural areas. The private sector provides majority of secondary, tertiary and quaternary care institutions with major concentration in metros and tier I and tier II cities.
India's completive advantage lies in its large pool of well-trained medical professionals. India is also cost competitive compared to its peers in European and Western countries. The cost of surgery in India is about one-tenth of that in the US or Western Europe India ranks 145 among 115 counters in terms of quality and accessibility of healthcare.
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India is also cost competitive to its peers in western countries.