Booster Dose
With record healthcare expenditure and allocations focussing on mitigating the impact of Covid-19, it s a shot in the arm for the sector
Illustration by Raj Verma
The highest-ever healthcare allocation in a budget will provide the much-needed boost to the ailing economy, and pave the way for a robust, holistic public healthcare infrastructure to tackle future pandemics, according to industry experts.
The Budget outlay for Health and Wellbeing for 2021/22 came in at a record Rs 2,23,846 crore, a 137 per cent increase over this year s Budget estimate of Rs 94,452 crore. It is about 1.6 per cent of India s projected Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at Rs 134.4 lakh crore for 2020/21. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who earmarked Rs 35,000 crore for Coronavirus vaccination as a short-term overall reset to correct the ailing economy, also announced a two-pronged strategy after listening to experts in the sector.
Representative Image PTI
Mission Poshan 2.0 Raises Hopes But Budgetary Allocations Disappoint What appears from the budget is that it is just bundling of the various schemes. There is no increase in the allocations Days after the fifth round of the national family health survey (NHFS-5) results showed reversal of the gains on most of the indicators of nutrition in 22 states and union territories in 2020-21, the government has recently announced the roll-out of Mission Poshan 2.0, raising hopes that a better strategy will be adopted to contain malnutrition in the country.
Under the Saksham Anganwadi and Mission Poshan 2.0, the government has subsumed four existing centrally sponsored schemes of umbrella Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) Anganwadi Services, Poshan Abhiyan, Scheme for Adolescent Girls and the National Crèche Scheme.
India s Coronavirus Puzzle: Why Case Numbers Are Dropping India s Coronavirus Puzzle: Why Case Numbers Are Dropping The apparent retreat of the coronavirus in India, the world s second-most populous nation, is a mystery that is crucial to the future course of the pandemic.
Just months ago, India was adding nearly 100,000 cases a day - more than any other country
New Delhi:
Back in November, Ajeet Jain felt like he was living a nightmare. The large public hospital where he works in India s capital was full of covid-19 patients, hundreds of them so ill they required intensive care. About 10 people were dying every day.
Mission Poshan 2.0 Raises Hopes But Budgetary Allocations Disappoint What appears from the budget is that it is just bundling of the various schemes. There is no increase in the allocations PTI outlookindia.com 2021-02-04T22:24:27+05:30
Days after the fifth round of the national family health survey (NHFS-5) results showed reversal of the gains on most of the indicators of nutrition in 22 states and union territories in 2020-21, the government has recently announced the roll-out of Mission Poshan 2.0, raising hopes that a better strategy will be adopted to contain malnutrition in the country.
Under the Saksham Anganwadi and Mission Poshan 2.0, the government has subsumed four existing centrally sponsored schemes of umbrella Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) Anganwadi Services, Poshan Abhiyan, Scheme for Adolescent Girls and the National Crèche Scheme.