1 Compulsory yoga and physical sessions must be organised in all schools at least up to high school.

2 All vaccinations must be ensured before admission to any school. This record must be kept by parents and schools.

3 A health pool must be created by the government to ensure an adequate flow of funds into this pool. It must be ensured that all citizens contribute to the health insurance pool in accordance with their financial category. The contribution so fixed should be collected by the bank from each account holder at the inception or end of the financial year, as per the government’s decision.

4 Every vehicle owner must be charged a health cess to be credited to the health pool.

5 All PHCs should be upgraded to mini hospitals with the deployment of proper doctors.

6 All the passing out doctors must serve a mandatory period of at least one year in defence, three years in a rural PHC, and five years in any government district-level hospital. No private general practice licence/registration should be allowed before completion of this mandatory service.

7 Only generic medicines must be prescribed and dispensed in PHC hospitals, while other branded medicines must be prescribed by big hospitals.

8 Medicines during hospitalisation must be supplied only by the concerned hospital at a reasonable price, and no medicine will be prescribed from the market. The medical superintendents must ensure the availability of medicines tendered by various departments.

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9 Before granting permission for marketing any medicine, the government should examine the production cost of the medicine and fix the maximum stockist and retail price after limiting advertisement, stockist and retailer margin and leave no margin for referral commissions generally paid to doctors.  One medicine should be allowed to be marketed under a single name, preferably the salt form. Multiple brand names leave the door open to price fixing. If a medicine has a single name across different manufacturers and the price is the same, the chance of a higher price is lowest. and launching any medicine under a fake name or own brand.

10 Keeping in view of eliminating organised loot in the medical field, the government should declare a medical board in consultation with the medical association and should frame and enforce a medical code fixing rate list of all procedures, treatments, and lodging, etc.

11 Remuneration of doctors should be so designed that doctors have a sense of belonging to the government hospitals.

12 Medical insurance must be made mandatory for the citizens of the financial category above category III.

13 Cash incentives of any kind to patients or doctors must be discouraged; health service quality must be at par with good hospital chains.

14 Responsibility must be fixed with adequate punishment for proven deficiency of service

15 All medical treatment charts must be mandatorily saved for at least ten years and must be made available to the patients on demand. This system must be made compulsory for all doctors. All doctors must be brought under medical-legal responsibilities. However, each doctor should be forced to get covered under professional liability insurance

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