Dr. Swati Piramal claims that India needs to increase its public health spending
- ByStartupStory | January 4, 2023
Dr. Swati Piramal, vice chair of the Piramal Group, received the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur award in September 2022. (Knight of the Legion of Honour). Her extraordinary accomplishments and contributions in the domains of commerce and industry, research, medicine, and art and culture on a national and international level were recognised with the highest civilian award given by France.
The Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (Knight of the Order of Merit), France’s second-highest civilian honour, was also given to Swati in 2006, many years ago. One of India’s top industrialists and scientists, Dr. Swati Piramal has improved the lives of countless people via her work on new technologies, medications, and public health. She has been instrumental in promoting trade, industry, innovation, art, and culture between France and India.
The Padma Shri, one of India’s highest civilian honours, was also given to Swati. She has built frameworks and strategies to support women in leadership roles and championed the cause of women in leadership. Swati is currently a member of the Harvard Global Advisory Council and has previously served on the Scientific Advisory Council and Trade Advisory Council of the Prime Minister of India.
As the Piramal Foundation’s director, Swati is engaged in creating novel, long-lasting, and scalable solutions to support India’s economic and social development.
She oversees the Foundation’s work to develop private-public partnership (PPP) models for solutions that will support India’s SDG objectives in the areas of public health, water, and education. She was steadfast in her desire to lessen the toll of disease from the beginning of her work as a doctor. She was concerned by the condition of the mill worker children who had moved to Mumbai’s Parel neighbourhood and started the Gopikrishna Piramal Memorial Hospital, an ambulatory healthcare facility, in 1982.
Everyone had polio during that time period. She therefore gathered several medical students to provide tips on polio prevention through songs and street theatre in an effort to raise awareness of this disease. The ambulatory care centre saw 25,000 kids annually and produced prosthetic legs to aid kids in walking. The region was polio-free in ten years, thus our prosthetics centre was no longer required.
She is persuaded that research, innovation, and economic growth influence a country’s progress. According to her, quick improvements in science and innovation are good for people all over the world.
She has played a key role in the creation of creative, long-term, and scalable solutions to remove the major obstacles preventing India from realising its full economic potential as the director of the Piramal Foundation. In order to facilitate fruitful public-private partnerships and effectively contribute to reaching India’s Sustainable Development Goals, they are also closely collaborating with the national and state governments, NITI Aayog, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
India experiences issues with public health, just like other emerging nations. We must work to create novel, long-lasting, and scaleable solutions that will accelerate our socioeconomic development.
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