It is primary health care that people need

India’s disease patterns have been shifting as cities grow and pull in more people. Lifestyle diseases like diabetes and hypertension have come to replace communicable diseases. There are more heart attacks and strokes and fewer people die from cholera and malaria. Also, there are fewer cases of mothers and babies dying during childbirth.

Currently, urban areas are dominated by facilities in the private sector — clinics, hospitals and specialty centres. Pricing is unregulated. These. . .