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The burden of health care on India’s poorest

In 2018, the government introduced the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, popularly known as Ayushman Bharat, which provides Rs. 5 lakh cover upon admission into an empaneled hospital for about 500 million Indians.
india news
Updated on Aug 12, 2024 04:27 am IST

‘More health for the money’: Obtaining more value from financing

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The contribution by the government is clearly too low and needs to go up substantially.
public health
Updated on May 11, 2024 03:22 pm IST

Public expenditure on health to be increased: Nirmala Sitharaman

Special focus will also be on ramping health and wellness centres in villages, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.
india news
Updated on May 17, 2020 02:02 pm IST

India is poised for deep structural health reforms

India’s weak health care is a legacy of limited attention to it after Independence, and the multiple priorities of a young nation. Health care has not been a vote-catching subject and the government spending is only 1.2% of GDP.
analysis
Updated on Apr 21, 2020 06:49 pm IST

India facing shortage of 6 lakh doctors, 2 million nurses: Study

India has shortage of an estimated 600,000 doctors and 2 million nurses, reveals study.
india news
Updated on Apr 14, 2019 06:06 pm IST

Government plans to increase spending on health for development goals

India’s government spending on health in 2015-16 was 1.17% of the gross domestic product (GDP), as per a Union ministry report.
india news
Published on Mar 18, 2019 07:46 am IST

Health spends can’t be left to chance

Everybody faces the possibility of incurring medical expenses at short notice. You are better off if you regularly put a fixed sum of money into a pool and relied on this to pay for unpredictable expenses
columns
Updated on Jul 11, 2018 07:18 pm IST

India spends less on health than Bhutan, Nepal and Maldives

A medical officer at a primary health centre in Maharashtra. One fourth of the country’s primary health centres do not have access to round-the-clock power supply, and nearly 20% don’t have water supply
editorials
Updated on Jun 22, 2018 07:27 am IST

Low-income nations including Bhutan, Nepal spend more than India on health

A lone medical officer handling the emergency ward as well as the OPD at Bhagta Bhai Ka 30-bed community health centre in Bathinda district.
india news
Updated on Jun 20, 2018 07:03 am IST
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