Healthcare decisions should be decentralised to improve delivery services

Hospital nurses are counselling some flood victims at an evacuation centre in this filepic. Decentralisation could help with better coordination in cases of natural disasters like floods, as local healthcare providers would know best what is needed on the ground.

I recently visited Taiwan and took the opportunity to better understand their policy approach to an increasingly ageing society.

Taiwan’s proportion of their population aged 65 and above is projected to hit 28% by 2040.