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India needs to look beyond the 137% spending hike to fix its public healthcare -Arjun Srinivas and howindialives.com

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Much of the increased spending will go towards preventive aspects of healthcare, with the health ministry by itself not gaining much even after the pandemic. India needs to do a whole lot more to strengthen its health infrastructure

In her Budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a 137% increase in allocations on “health and well-being" for 2021-22, to 2.24 trillion. Embedded in that declaration was a definitional change: it also included funds for sectors with a smaller, indirect intersection with health, notably drinking water and sanitation. The broader definition puts additional emphasis on preventive aspects of healthcare, which is where much of the hiked allocation will go to.

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