Transferring ownership from government run facilities to successful businessmen because they know better than the government how to run a business so it will make a profit for them and shareholders.
All the health centres included in the study are government run facilities.
However, the availability of psychiatric medicines was very poor for Delhi state and for central (federal) government run facilities [ 25].
Three fourth of the registrations (188) were at government run facilities with most of these (125/188) with referral hospitals.
Government run facilities are often the only formal health care option, especially for poor people in rural areas.
In the government run facilities there were more male physicians, while the university and NGO run facilities it was the opposite.
At the time of the study, of the 1327 healthcare facilities in Zambia, 85% are government run facilities, 9% are private sector facilities and 6% are religious affiliated facilities.
Our study brings out this gap and is reflected in poor credibility of CMWs; they have no equipment and supplies to offer services and there is absence of referral mechanisms for cases they refer to government run facilities.
Fourteen studies reported that doctors (n = 9), nurses (n = 5), midwives (n = 4), and general health staff (n = 6) sought bribes to provide any care or better quality care [ 35, 46, 58, 61, 76, 77, 81, 84, 86, 95, 98– 103] 103], primarily in government run facilities (n = 10).
However, the facilities proved inadequate and Rupa was taken to Safdarjung hospital, a government-run facility in Delhi.
