The private sector holds a major share of health care service in the developing countries like India. However, there are noticeable disparities in cost and efficiency between private providers and public providers, such as for preventive services such as immunizations or for neonatal care. Patient always complain about a difference of cost between private and government sector. Moreover, they find that the list of recommended essential vaccine differs between private and public healthcare setting.
However in most cases patients prefer to stick to private sector as they have a notion that efficacy of vaccine obtained from private sector is higher than those given through government set up. How to justify the difference in cost to the patients, if we need to at all? Is it a myth or fact that performance of vaccines given in private clinics are better than those provided in public…
