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India's per capita expenditure on healthcare among lowest in the world; govt spends as little as Rs 3 per day on each citizen
Indiaspend •India's expenditure on public healthcare per capita per year is Rs 1112, less than the cost of a single consultation at the country’s top private hospitals.
Budget 2018: Centre announces National Health Protection Scheme, initiative to benefit 50 crore people
•The Centre on Thursday announced the world's largest government funded health care programme, aimed at benefiting 10 crore poor families by providing coverage of up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year.
Narendra Modi stresses on need to make medical treatments affordable for all
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Why India's timid system is proving to be a big challenge for Modi's audacious reform path
Kyatish Rajawat •The system needs to define the real problem and makes independent choices of its own. Otherwise, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to usher in reforms will be waylaid by the same lobbies that have been holding back the progress
National Health Policy 2017: Medical experts deem targets unattainable, say new laws needed
Kangkan Acharyya •Experts have doubted the attainability of targets set by the National Health Policy 2017, as it avoids the task of chalking out a clear path to synergise relationship between public and private players
New National Health Policy overlooks health as basic human right, making it counter-intuitive
Deya Bhattacharya •Since the right to health flows from the right to life, making the former a fundamental right in the new National Health Policy 2017 is a natural corollary.
National Health Policy to hike Union healthcare spending to 2.5% of GDP: JP Nadda
•The National Health Policy, which was cleared by the Cabinet on Wednesday, also envisions increasing life expectancy to 70 years from 67.5 years and proposes free diagnostics and drugs at all public hospitals.