Sarve Santu Niramaya (Let all be Healthy) or may be not

by confuzzled dude Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:41 pm

(Reuters) - The government has ordered a cut of nearly 20 percent in its 2014/15 healthcare budget due to fiscal strains, putting at risk key disease control initiatives in a country whose public spending on health is already among the lowest in the world.

Two health ministry officials told Reuters on Tuesday that more than 60 billion rupees, or $948 million, has been slashed from their budget allocation of around $5 billion for the financial year ending on March 31.

Despite rapid economic growth over the past two decades, successive governments have kept a tight rein on healthcare expenditure. India spends about 1 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on public health, compared to 3 percent in China and 8.3 percent in the United States.

But hopes were high that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was elected in May, would upgrade basic health infrastructure and make medical services more affordable for the poor.

The United Nations estimates about one third of the world's 1.2 billion poorest people live in India.

"We were not expecting (budget cuts) this time because of the commitments they made in the manifesto," one of the health ministry officials said, referring to Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). "No reason was given ... but there is shortage of funds. It is not rocket science."

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/12/23/india-health-budget-idINKBN0K10Y020141223

-> *ahem* Was somebody saying that I'm unable to see all the progress made by this government in last 6-7 months because of my jaundiced view

by confuzzled dude Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:50 pm

In addition to the healthcare budget, the finance ministry has also ordered a spending cut for India's HIV/AIDS programme by about 30 percent to 13 billion rupees ($205.4 million).

India had the third-largest number of people living with HIV in the world at the end of 2013, according to the U.N. AIDS programme, and it accounts for more than half of all AIDS-related deaths in the Asia-Pacific.

In October, India was on the brink of running out of a critical medicine in its free HIV/AIDS drugs programme due to bureaucratic delays. A crisis was averted with the assistance of pharmaceutical companies and global health organisations

by Kayalvizhi Wed Dec 24, 2014 12:22 am

In an unrelated news, Indian government allocated 14 billion Rupees towards Sanskrit education and research because it is the mother language of all Indians.

by confuzzled dude Wed Dec 24, 2014 9:54 am

Kayalvizhi wrote:In an unrelated news, Indian government allocated 14 billion Rupees towards Sanskrit education and research because it is the mother language of all Indians.

And Rs. 3 billion allocated (Rs. 30 billion estimated ) for the Statue of Unity certainly will help AIDS programme going.

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