The quality of Indian healthcare is varied. In major urban areas, healthcare is of adequate quality, approaching and occasionally meeting Western standards. However, access to quality medical care is limited or unavailable in most rural areas,[10] although rural medical practitioners are highly sought after by residents of rural areas as they are more financially affordable and geographically accessible than practitioners working in the formal public health care sector.
Indian Health care system is just a nominal health care system, there are not enough hospitals, doctors, medical staff, medicines or ambulance services available in the system. Quality of care and accessibility is very poor. Most people depend on private hospitals for health care except very poor people, who depend on government hospitals because they can't afford private out of pocket health care. This system can't be called a health care system from a Western perceptive. This not an organised or functional system but a collection of government hospitals in different parts of the country to serve a huge population. India ranks last in healthcare compared to OECD or BRICS countries. The 12th five year plan document on health has received a lot of criticism for its limited understanding of universal health care and failure to increase public expenditure on health. While the HLEG report recommends an increase in public expenditure on health from 1.58 per cent of GDP currently to 2.1 per cent of GDP by the end of 12th five year plan it is far lower than the global median of 5 per cent. The lack of extensive and adequately funded public health services pushes large numbers of people to incur heavy out of pocket expenditures on services purchased from the private sector. Out of pocket expenditures arise even in public sector hospitals, since lack of medicines means that patients have to buy them.
United Group is making a small effort in bridging the gap in the often inadequate Healthcare Facilities or in most cases extremely expensive treatments in its own way by trying to set up low cost affordable Hospitals as well as Diagnostic Centres. United while keeping the cost low has ensured quality is absolutely world class at all times.
United Group is in the field of Healthcare primarily through its 165 bed Hospital based out of Bhubaneshwar, the capital city of the Eastern State of Orissa. The Hospital is run under the name of M/s Swarna Hospital & is situated at Jaydev Vihar Complex,the heart of Bhubaneshwar City.This is a multi-speciality Hospital & offers various services like Gynecology , Gastroenterology , Neurology , Cardiology amongst a few other specialities.The Hospital has been operational since August 2012 .
United Healthcare has also forayed in the space of Diagnostic Centers across the city of Mumbai. As a part of its services United has opened up Pathology Sample collection centres across the city of Mumbai, while the Diagnostic Laboratory is based in the north eastern suburb of Kurla.
