The novel coronavirus disease (COVID‑19) outbreak, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, has rapidly escalated into a global pandemic which leads to the declaration of national health emergency in several countries and is having a profound impact on private healthcare systems globally including India in an unprecedented manner. However, the impacts are very serious, especially on global economics and health care due to the COVID‑19 pandemic.
During this pandemic, private hospitals and clinics are experiencing a reduction of inpatient footfalls due to nationwide lockdown and several other factors as well which are leading to inadequate utilization of healthcare services by the patients and decrease in medical services volumes which resulted in acute economic crisis. In this article, various factors that caused a significant reduction in utilization rates of private…
