ANI | Updated: Apr 06, 2021 20:03 IST
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): World Health Day is a global health awareness occasion celebrated every year on April 7, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organisation (WHO), with an aim to ensure that everyone, everywhere realises their right to good health. Keeping this in mind the theme of World Health Day 2021 is building a fairer and healthier world.
Commemorating the occasion while spreading awareness, experts from Ujala Cygnus Hospital, IHW Council, Vision Eye Centre, Paras Hospital, and Columbia Asia Hospital, talked about the current scenario of our health care system.
Dr (Col) R Ranga Rao, Chairman, Paras Cancer Centre, Paras Hospitals, Gurugram said, As we are amid a pandemic this year while we celebrate Health Day, we should all be first grateful for our healthcare workers who are working day and night. Talking about the pandemic and how it has impacted cancer care, probably we will
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So far India seems to have weathered the pandemic better than other major economies but the catastrophe did lay bare the gaps in the country’s healthcare system. India’s total per capita expenditure on healthcare stood at Rs 1,944 per person in the financial year 2019-20. As of April 2020, the total spending by Centre and states stood at Rs 2.6 lakh crore or 1.29% of GDP which includes salaries, transfers to the state under schemes such as Ayushman Bharat.