The Indian healthcare sector faces several challenges, ranging from poor infrastructure to limited access to healthcare services for rural and remote populations. The major challenges faced by the Indian healthcare sector include:

• Limited government financing
• Shortage of healthcare professionals, especially in rural areas
• High out-of-pocket expenses for patients
• Inadequate healthcare infrastructure and facilities
• Low levels of health insurance coverage
• Inequitable distribution of healthcare resources
• Poor quality of healthcare services in public hospitals
• Inadequate regulatory frameworks and legal provisions

To address these challenges, the government can take several steps such as increasing public funding for healthcare, investing in healthcare infrastructure, providing incentives for healthcare professionals to work in rural areas, implementing health insurance schemes for vulnerable populations, ensuring equitable distribution of healthcare resources, strengthening regulatory frameworks and legal provisions, and improving the quality of healthcare services in public hospitals. Additionally, partnerships between government, private sector, and civil society can help to build sustainable healthcare systems that can strengthen the capacity of the healthcare sector to address the needs of all citizens.