The government is planning to cover serious ailments like cancer and transplants, which need more financial support. An announcement in this regard can be expected in the interim Union Budget on February 1.
The state’s Right to Heath Act represents a huge step forward for rights-based healthcare legislation in India. But will it deliver on its lofty goals?
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 9 (ANI/BusinessWire India): It took a COVID 19 and the obliteration of 154K of the populace from India between March 2020 - Feb 2021, to mark the first day of February, to earmark Healthcare sector as an utmost priority, for the nation s well-being.
Ever since Independence the healthcare sector has been lurching under abject obliviousness towards primary, secondary or tertiary care albeit not attaining precedence over any other fiscal reforms. For a country with 135 billion inhabitants, the abysmal spending and allocation over the years questioned the very maxim Health is Wealth .
When COVID 19 hit the Indian economy and set the graph southward, budget 2021-22 finally made it the most substantial area of discourse, a narrative which is being advocated for the last few generations. The sparse funding and nonchalance towards the voices of the industry was difficult to endure.