India, Jan. 29 -- The recently released report from the Lancet Commission calls for 'a citizen-centred and technology driven system' for Universal Health Care (UHC) in India. Lack of UHC is a worrying problem for a country of 1.4 billion people from various socio-economic groups, large diversity in health care access and under-capacity in health-care infrastructure.

Yet, we contend that UHC is now in sight for India. We want to highlight three reasons for this. First, digital solutions at scale are now feasible in India and assistive AI technology is fast-maturing. Second, India has been building significant prowess in research in drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, medical devices together with an industrial base in large-scale manufacturing....