India's "public" spending on healthcare is around 1% of the GDP and has remained so forever now. It is a very sad state of affairs where the % of GDP spent has risen from similar levels to 6% to 10% in other emerging Asian countries but no Government in India ever considered increasing it.
Even the National Health Policy 2017 document called for this increase. Sadly, ignored. India has one of the lowest doctors and hospitals ratio.. we need to work bottoms up, every distrcit to have a minimum number of doctors and hospital beds. Corruption remains another issue. Many Government doctors take salary but don't visit hospitals and are busy running their own practice.
India's "public" spending on healthcare is around 1% of the GDP and has remained so forever now. It is a very sad state of affairs where the % of GDP spent has risen from similar levels to 6% to 10% in other emerging Asian countries but no Government in India ever considered increasing it.
Even the National Health Policy 2017 document called for this increase. Sadly, ignored. India has one of the lowest doctors and hospitals ratio.. we need to work bottoms up, every distrcit to have a minimum number of doctors and hospital beds. Corruption remains another issue. Many Government doctors take salary but don't visit hospitals and are busy running their own practice.