MFC meet at Nagpur, 7-9 Jan 2011

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37th Annual Meet of Medico Friend Circle (MFC)

Theme: `Universal Access to Health Care in India- a realizable dream.'

Venue: Centre for Human Potential Development, Nagpur, India

7 to 9 Jan 2011.

MFC is a nation-wide platform of secular, pluralist, pro-people and pro-poor

health practitioners, social scientists and social activists interested in the

health problems of the people of India. Since its inception in 1974, MFC has

critically analysed the existing health care system and has tried to evolve an

appropriate approach towards health care which is humane and can meet the needs

of the vast majority of the people in our country.

MFC tries to foster among health workers a current that upholds human values and

aims at restructuring the health care system. It believes in depth and inclusive

debate and discussion during it's annual meets and offers a forum for

dialogue/debate and sharing of experiences. MFC has been organizing discussions

around important health policy issues during it's Annual Meet.

Theme of this Meet is divided into three main sessions – (a) Provisioning; (

Financing; © Governance. We are hoping that people who have expertise in these

areas will contribute by providing background papers on specific areas (these

may be already written or a summary of the resource persons work). These will in

turn be circulated among the various groups in MFC that are working on this

process and feed into the evolution of a " Landscape " paper on that particular

topic.

The participants pay for their own travel and local hospitality expenses. We

make very simple arrangements to cut down expenses.

For further details:

Dr. Rakhal Gaitonde, Co-convenor MFC (rakhal.gaitonde@...)

Dr. Abhay Shukla (abhayshukla1@...)

Dr. Anant Phadke (anant.phadke@...)

mfriendcircle

Website: http://www.mfcindia.org

Programme outline:

INTRODUCTORY SESSION

Background & Objectives Overall Framework Assumptions UAHC - Definitions

1. UAHC, a realizable dream

2. UAHC - Concept Paper

3. Anne Mills Paper

4. Country case studies – THAI, BRAZIL

PROVISIONING

Provisioning will include the following levels:

RURAL – village / subcenter / PHC / block / sub-divisional / district

URBAN

Will also include various types of services

Curative / preventive / Promotive / rehab /

Role of AYUSH

Human power

Doctors/CHW / paramedics

Medical Education

1. Paper detailing the services at the following levels – Primary, Secondary,

Tertiary

2. Strengthening of Public health services

3. Intergration of Non-Allopathic systems

4. Regulation and Integration of the Private sector (cost containment to be

taken up in a separate subsession)

5. Mapping of Private Practitioner - Commission of Macroeconomics & Health

6. Human Resources

7. Equipment, Supplies

8. LANDSCAPE PAPER

FINANCING

Overall scale of funds required, sources and mechanism of harnessing funds,

flow and mechanism of funds,

1. Over all scale of finance + overall structure & mechanism

2. Paper from Commission on macro economics and Health

3. Paper previously circulated by Ravi Duggal

4. Mechanisms of Financing

5. RSBY

6. Reports / lists of various boards from the NCEUS reports

7. Ravi Duggal's old EPW paper

8. Construction workers boards and ESI critique

9. How to enhance public financing – national level and state level

10. Estimation of money required for medicines including for inpatients

11. Potential of various community based insurance schemes – up scalability

Law / regulation / decision making

1. Overall paper on Laws and Right to Health

2.Assam – the working of the right to health act there

3. Nagaland Communitization laws

4. The working of the CPA

5. Experience with clinical establishment Act

6. Options for regulating insurance bodies

Institutional attempts at cost -cutting and auditing.

self -regulation

1. Dr. Khursale

2. Dr. Punyo Gun

3. SMF

4. CMC / LCECU

5. Children Hospital

6. Jan Swasthya Sahyog

7. ARSI – JK Bannerjee

8. Chittorgarh experience

9. EHA

10. Ethics and Regulation

11. NICE (National Institute of Clinical Evidence of the NHS)

Community Control

1. Kerala

2.Brazil

3. CLICS

4.Village planning – a philosophical note especially on the topic of community

control

5. Monitoring

6. Participatory Planning (review of lit)

Other issues

- Analysis and approach to regulate PPP

- Evidence for interventions to reduce corruption in the health sector

- Structures – Public administrative strutures

- State Center relationships

- Role of RKS and other structurues

- Information technology and UAHC

DAY III – Way Ahead :

Summary and consensus of the first two day's discussions

Views, suggestions of various organizations and broad plan for how to take this

issue forward

There will be an introductory session of two hours and then each of the other

three sessions will be of 4 hours each with the sub-sessions running parallel

for two hours.

It is proposed that a number of background papers are collected on the

particular topic (background papers listed) and these are then put together in a

'Landscaping presentation' by lead facilitators of each session. Thus there is

only one major presentation putting together the various issues brought forth by

the various authors.

There will be ample time for discussion where the authors and others can clarify

and raise issues.

`MFC Tradition' of organizing, conducting its Annual Meets

The main purpose of MFC's Annual Meetings is to discuss important issues

relevant to the chosen theme of the Meet; to share varying analyses,

perspectives and experiences and to build a basic solidarity, `friendship'

amongst activists/ analysts from different backgrounds, regions.

It is hoped that this Annual Meet would add to this rich tradition of this low

cost `open university' of the People's Health Movement in India