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What The 137% Hike in Health Budget Means: From a Doctor Petitioning for Healthy India
Gurugram-based ENT surgeon Dr Sarika Verma has started a petition to raise India s health budget to 10% of GDP. (Credit: Change.org/Facebook)
A Gurugram-based doctor who had started a petition addressed to Finance Minister Sitharaman in a bid to increase the health budget to 10% of the GDP tells News18 what she thought of the health budget.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented India s budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022 on Monday. The Union minister, while acknowledging the health and economic crisis the country fell into during the past one year, added that the battle against the coronavirus hasn t ended yet. Emphasizing that the Budget proposal of 2021-2022 rests on 6 pillars including that of Health and Wellbeing, Sitharaman proposed more than doubling India’s healthcare and wellbeing spending to 2.2 trillion rupees ($30.1