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Health sector to get 2.5 pc of GDP in 12th Plan: Planning Commission member Syeda Hamid

-PTI


The health sector will get a larger share of 2.5 per cent of GDP instead of 1.8 per cent, in the next Plan period, said Planning Commission member Syeda Hamid.

Addressing an international Vaccination Symposium at Surajkund near here today, she said this will be a very "big jump."

She said that year-by-year achievement has to be recorded to get maximum benefits and the Planning Commission will insist that what is spent has to be commensurate with the results.

Citing examples of Bhawanpura village in Haridwar district of Uttarakhand and Malegon in Maharashtra, which she had visited recently, Hamid said "these villages are inhabited by very poor people and surrounded by industries.

"Though sickness is rampant and the level of poverty is high, they do not go to government dispensaries as they have no faith in medicines given to them and also have apprehension about the kind of treatment they will receive. Public health scenario is abysmal and women refuse to avail these facilities."

For outreach programme, Syeda Hamid suggested interaction of local police, Anganwadi workers, religious heads of different sects and others have to help mobilize people to accept health facilities.