Ideas to make Healthcare Affordable & Accessible – Kavita Singh,Director, Minis…

  • 25-03-2015 09:37:21
  • Health

Today, the public, private and government sectors all work in convergence and come out with the model that with minimum resources we have, we go ahead with some results.

Burden of infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate still exists. We have reduced it drastically, but it still exists. On the other side, when you see communicable diseases, they are still a burden on us. In addition to it, 56 to 60 percent deaths are caused due to these.

Even an approach that we look, whatever is the private sector or the government sector, we synchronise and go ahead or we look for all options. Even domestic budget and external aid component till March 2015 was `1500 crore. It has now come down to `400 crore. So, the support we were expecting from the international agencies is being stopped. It is a signal that we need to enhance our budget. Further, we are empowering states by shifting more budget to states as health is a state subject.