Panta Jayaprabha Hospital PPP

Overview:

• The Panta Jayaprabha Hospital is a super-speciality hospital project of the health department that aims to be completed by the end of 2019.
• The state government has provided a 33-year lease to Medanta Group for this construction project.
• This is the first health PPP in Bihar and it set the trend for more hospital PPPs in the region. The region itself faces a significant lack of public health services and health infrastructure.  
• The International Finance Corporation (IFC) was the advisor to the Government of Hihar. 

Wai Yee Tsang - Journalist Asia-Pacific