The fiasco was put down to poor drafting and proponents of PPPs say that if drafted well, agreements could work. The National Commission of Macro Economics in Health estimated in 2005 that owner-operated health facilities, like nursing homes constitute over 85% of India's private health sector. Anjan Bose , secretary general of NATHEALTH, a federation of corporate hospitals, medical technology companies and other private healthcare players when contacted said that his organisation had no reports or case studies of successful PPPs in healthcare though some NATHEALTH members did count their own PPPs as successful ones. "It is difficult to measure the success of healthcare PPPs. While there are many examples of PPP working in infrastructure projects like highways, there seems to be a dearth of evidence of successful healthcare PPPs.

Source: Times of India August 05, 2017 11:15 UTC