Our govt.guarantees Freshly every citizen -food,essential medicines&universal health along with primary education justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.
how much it costs?
1.three-fourths of the country’s health budget goes into addressing PHC through the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). The country spent close to Rs 21,000 crore in 2012-13 alone.
2.National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) costs 22000 crores,
3. Free Essential Medicines would cost the country Rs 28,560 crores.
Can the govt.run a primary care centre that caters to 150,000 people with a budget of just Rs 12 lakh each year?
the naked truth and stark evidence to pilferage is that our Central government spends on average Rs 3 crore to run a single PHC.
- Who are our our front line workers in public health?
- how can we upskill the 8 Lac ASHA Workers?
- How to integrate primary health care and secondary health care which needs enormous per capita expenditure up to Rs 2,000 from the existing Rs 750. ?
- why still drugs share major portion of health expenditure?why can't the state manufacture medicines?
Health Expenditure?
For every rupee you spend, Rs 0.70 goes in buying drugs.
Indians now have a per capita income of $3,851.
What we should frame?
Treatment protocols and rationalisation of cost and fee structure,
what can be done?
In India, there are more than 165,000 primary and sub-care centers. These centers typically have no equipment and run on paramedical assistance with periodic access to doctors. These centers can be redeployed with a strategic plan including mobile, simple, and automated technologies as part of making healthcare more accessible across India.
Diseases and accidents precipitated by Life style,are major causes of mortality (63%)India:Total % of GDP spent on Health care: 4% ; of this private expenditure spent by citizens is 70%.
total per capita spent on health care: Rs.9000/- (of this govt.'s contribution is meager Rs.2500/-).
Unless govt.raises allocations up to 10% of GDP,India can't be healthy nation.IMA strongly advises repeatedly to our govts,but its futile and fell on deaf ears.
| Country | Total % of GDP spent on Healthcare | Private Expenditure % | Per capita spent on Healthcare (USD) | Per capita government spent on Healthcare (USD) |
| India | 4.1 | 70.8 | 132 | 39 |
| USA | 17.9 | 46.9 | 8362 | 4437 |
| UK | 9.6 | 16.1 | 3480 | 2919 |
| South Africa | 8.9 | 55.9 | 935 | 412 |
| China | 5.1 | 46.4 | 379 | 203 |
| Brazil | 9 | 53 | 1028 | 483 |
| Pakistan | 2.2 | 61.5 | 59 | 23 |
| Nigeria | 5.1 | 62.1 | 121 | 46 |
| Russia | 5.1 | 37.9 | 998 | 620 |
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