Quality & Patient Safety

Indian hospitals not swarming to governmental quality certification

Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, July 10, 2007

India's National Accreditation Board for Hospital and Healthcare Providers (NABH) has received a poor response to its accreditation program from the country's more than 15,000 facilities, reports The Indian Express. Only seven hospitals have become accredited, none of which have been governmental facilities, reports the article.

The NABH was originally set up in 2005 to capitalize on the medical tourism wave. However, it seems that hospitals are capitalizing on medical tourism, an estimated $2 billion a year business for India, without having received NABH accreditation.

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