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Medicines account for largest share of healthcare expenditure: Study -GS Mudur

-The Telegraph

Research considers expenses arising out of visits to hospitals, clinics and doctors’ private chambers and not those from home visits by doctors

New Delhi: Medicines account for the largest share of healthcare expenditure arising out of hospital visits by Indian households, whether seeking outpatient or inpatient services, but health-related non-medical expenses on travel or accommodation too pose big financial burdens, new research has indicated.

The study, a comprehensive dissection of out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) on healthcare, has also found that outpatient expenditures eat up 21 per cent of household incomes, a bigger burden than the 16 per cent of incomes consumed by inpatient expenditure.

It has found that the doctors’ consultation fees are on average 12-fold higher in private hospitals and seven-fold higher in private clinics compared with government facilities.

The researchers have said that better healthcare infrastructure across the country would help avert travel by patients and accompanying relatives, reducing the health-related non-medical expenditure. Price caps on more medicines would reduce the biggest chunk of the healthcare expenditure.

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