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New Delhi: Despite the Covid-19 pandemic having exposed the inadequacies in Indias healthcare systems, the sector is not getting sufficient fiscal attention, most public health specialists complain every year after the Union Budget...
The revised budget for the Union health ministry for the current financial year (2023-2024) is considerably less than the original budget estimated for the fiscal reflecting how funds allocated for several key schemes were underutilised...
First launched during the 2021 Budget, the scheme aims to fill critical gaps in health infrastructure, surveillance and health research spanning both the urban and rural areas so that the communities are independent in managing pandemics or health crises...
For the governments flagship health insurance scheme, Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (ABPMJAY), too, the budget was revised to Rs 6,800 crore from Rs 7,200 crore..
The statement made by the finance minister in her Budget speech suggested that the government may convert existing health infrastructure outside the control of the health ministry, too, into medical colleges..
