India’s healthcare suffers from a substandard infrastructure and limited insurance coverage, leading to inferior healthcare quality in the
country, as confirmed from multiple global indicators (ranked 145 out of 195 countries on healthcare access & quality, as per the Lancet study in 2016; ranked 66 out of 195 countries on healthcare security, as per Global Health Security Index 2021). The poor
condition of India’s healthcare system was recently exposed as the system collapsed during the COVID-19 pandemic (especially the period of second COVID-19 wave).