As the world’s second-most populous country and one of the fastest-growing economies, India faces both - challenges as well as opportunities in the healthcare sector. In terms of opportunities, Healthcare is one of the largest sectors today - both in revenue as well as employment. Our healthcare sector is growing at a rapid pace due to its strengthening coverage, services and increasing expenditure by public as well private players. In fact, by 2022, the healthcare market is expected to increase three fold to Rs 8.6 trillion. In the context of healthcare services, the last few years have been dotted with several significant achievements… There have been remarkable improvements in health indicators such as life expectancy, infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate etc. due to factors like increasing penetration of healthcare services across the country, extensive health campaigns, sanitation drives, increase in the number of hospitals, improved immunisation, growing literacy and awareness and of course, the numerous initiatives by the central and state governments