SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN INVESTMENT REQUIRED IN NEW FISCAL
Gyan Pathak
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2021-01-27 11:13
Health sector has been in focus right from the beginning of the financial year 2020-21, since India was locked down on March 24 last year due to outbreak of coronavirus pandemic. It proved a straw on the camel’s back. Our healthcare facilities were overwhelmed at a time when the government had actually lowered the allocation, which was just about one per cent of the GDP, while it was 1.5 per cent in 2018-19, and the government had promised to raise it to 2.5 per cent by 2025. The pandemic enforced urgent spending, both public and private, financially breaking most of us, and it is in this context people are waiting for the budget 2021-22 in general and the health sector in particular.