Even as India is increasingly gaining recognition abroad as a quality healthcare destination, NRI businessman S P Hinduja has mooted a partnership between the business and medical communities to first make health services affordable to the majority of the country's population.

"The word care is an integral part of healthcare and we have to take care to ensure that medicines are not out of reach of the majority of population," he said, speaking at the ongoing 6th Asian Conference of Neurological surgeons organised by Hinduja hospital here on Friday.

Noting that the country had made significant progress in the medical field and had reached a stage where patients come from abroad for first-class medical care, he said such care should not be restricted to a few and be made available throughout the country.