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"Free-medicines-for-all scheme " has received its first financial allocation of Rs 100 crore from the Planning Commission for 2012-13. 


(The entire programme is estimated to cost Rs 28,560 crore over the 12th Five Year Plan).

• How many public health care centers are  in india?
• 1.6 lakh sub-centres, 23,000 primary health centres, 5,000 community health centres and 640 district hospitals.

• How many  drugs are categorized in essential medicine list ?

348 drugs are in National List of Essential Medicines, 2011.

• How the Indians are expended their money on  health care ?
•  India's per capita OOP expenditure to pay for healthcare costs has gone up from Rs 41.83 in 2005 to Rs 68.63 in 2010, 

per capita spending on drugs increased from 29.77 per cent to 46.86 per cent during the same period, 
while hospitalization costs went up from 11.20 per cent to 22.47 per cent & 
Outpatient expenditure also increased from 30.63 per cent to 46.16 per cent.