The Economic Survey released on Tuesday said the share of government expenditure on health has increased by more than 10% in the last five years till FY2019.
Along with this, the survey states that the expenditure of common man on health related ailments has come down from 64% in FY 2014 to 48% in FY 2019, indicating a positive trend.
“Ensuring the provision of quality healthcare facilities to citizens, the share of government health expenditure in total health expenditure has increased from 28.6% in FY14 to 40.6% in FY19, as a percentage of total expenditure out-of There has been a concomitant decline in out-of-pocket expenditure. Health expenditure grew from 64.2% in FY14 to 48.2% in FY19,” said the survey.
This indicates that there has been an increase in the rural public health system over the past eight years, along with the expansion and improvement of sub-centres, primary health centers (PHCs), and community health centers (CHCs), as well as doctors, nurses and nurses. other medical personnel.
In fact, the National Health Account (NHA) for fiscal year 2019 (which is the latest available account) highlights the “increasing importance of public healthcare and social security in ensuring universal health coverage”.
The estimate for FY19 shows that the share of government health expenditure in total GDP “increased from 1.2% in FY14 to 1.3% in FY19”.
Meanwhile, to focus on providing health services to all, the survey said the government is focusing on primary health care expenditure, which “increased from 51.1% in FY14 to 55.2% in FY19″. It is done”.
India bravely faced Covid, and emerged stronger
The survey has lauded the government’s performance during the pandemic.
It said that the years 2020 and 2021 were the “peak years of the pandemic” and tested the “strength of the country’s social and health infrastructure”.
Hence, FY2023 has been a year of “rejuvenation” for the sector, which has “beaten the storm” of the pandemic and emerged “strong”. “No set of measures is sufficient to counter any immediate shock such as the Covid pandemic, as the measures are designed with the assumption of ‘ceteris paribus’, which means everything else remains the same.”
But the key difference is that “we are operating in a new normal, and so towards the end, it is all about better managing the crisis and planning ahead”.
Extensive efforts have been made by the government to ensure quality healthcare, India’s COVID-19 vaccination program has also played an important role in facilitating our economic recovery process, Chief Economic Advisor to States#economic survey pic.twitter.com/QvPYcNcRha– PIB India (@PIB_India) January 31, 2023
It added that India has made a strong list in the last few years, which will improve the overall health infrastructure and governance system of the country. It also appreciated the CoWin platform and said that without this platform, successful management of the Covid pandemic was not possible.
“To ensure accountability and transparency in the supply chain for vaccinations, the platform provided real-time stock tracking at the national, state and district levels (government and private),” adding that “CoWin also stopped wastage of Covid 19 vaccines, which otherwise happened before CoWIN”.
Comfortable doctor to patient ratio
The Economic Survey states that with interventions in the medical education system over the past eight years, India has a comfortable doctor to patient ratio.
India has one doctor per 834 people against the benchmark ratio of one doctor per 1,000 people. World Health Organization (WHO).
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“The recruitment of doctors and support staff has improved as a result of interventions in the pharmaceutical education system since 2014,” the survey said.
According to the National Medical Commission (NMC), 13,08,009 allopathic doctors are registered with the State Medical Councils and NMC till June 2022. “Assuming 80 per cent availability of registered allopathic doctors and 5.7 lakh AYUSH doctors, the doctor-population ratio in the country is 1:834 as against the WHO norms of 1:1000.”
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