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Last Updated: May 23, 2021, 11:24 PM IST
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The entire healthcare system — the drug R&D, hospitals, personnel and GDP spending — needs an overhaul
Universal healthcare must be our national goal. India’s public expenditure on health as a percentage of GDP is abysmal — about 2%. This must be raised to 5% in the current financial year.
Nripendra Misra
The writer is former principal secretary to the Prime Minister
Covid-19 has spared none. Its scale and spread were underestimated, and beyond projections by scientific models. Criticism is in hindsight. But we need to be better equipped. The biggest gap we need to fill is our healthcare framework.