Kerala opts for huge WB loan for initiative to improve health system
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Kerala opts for huge WB loan for initiative to improve health system

The Hindu  

The State Cabinet has approved the implementation of the Kerala Health System Improvement Programme under the Health department by taking a loan to the tune of ₹2,424.28 crore from the World Bank. The programme aims at building a resilient health system capable of tackling all emerging health issues while addressing the evolving demographic and epidemiological problems in the State. Goals of programme Some of the goals of the programme are developing an ecosystem which will help reduce infectious diseases; preparing the health system to respond to new health challenges in a confident manner; improving trauma care and emergency medicine by creating an efficient network of emergency care facilities, including ambulance service and a trauma registry which function round the clock; augmenting the care of the elderly by involving local self-government institutions; improving human resources in health and its efficiency; universalising digital health applications and enhancing healthcare investment. Additional burden However, the emerging health challenges, inadequate public health investment and increasing morbidity due to non-communicable diseases, fuelled by unhealthy lifestyles, have all been creating an additional burden on the State’s health system.

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Maternal mortality rate of 100 deaths per lakh live births achieved: Health Minister
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Maternal mortality rate of 100 deaths per lakh live births achieved: Health Minister

The Hindu  

India has achieved the National Health Policy target of a maternal mortality rate of 100 deaths per one lakh live births, and between 1990 to 2020, MMR in India declined by 83%, which was much higher than the decline in Global MMR, Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda said on Tuesday. Mr. Nadda was chairing the ninth meeting of the …

Karnataka health sector likely to get bigger slice of budget pie this year
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Karnataka health sector likely to get bigger slice of budget pie this year

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Health, a key sector in the state budget, received 4 per cent of the total allocation in both 2023 and 2024. However, this time, the allocation is likely to increase, with expectations of higher funding for healthcare infrastructure, medical services and public health programmes. This year, the health department began setting up critical care hubs in every district, while …

JP Nadda Lauds Odisha for Drop in MMR, IMR
3 weeks, 1 day ago

JP Nadda Lauds Odisha for Drop in MMR, IMR

Deccan Chronicle  

Bhubaneshwar: Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Friday commended the National Health Mission for its crucial role in enhancing India’s public health outcomes. Speaking at the 9th National Summit on Good and Replicable Practices and Innovation in Public Healthcare in Puri, Nadda praised Odisha for its remarkable progress in key health indicators, particularly the significant decline in maternal and infant …

Kerala Budget earmarks funds for health infra sans human resource
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Kerala Budget earmarks funds for health infra sans human resource

The Hindu  

Health-care workers say more infra does not translate to better health care unless the govt creates adequate posts. The last time the issue received any attention was in 2017 when Thomas Isaac announced creation of 8,071 posts The Budget 2025-26, presented by the Finance Minister in the Assembly on Friday, allocated more funds to the health sector for setting up …

Kerala budget increases social sector funding, but no hike in pensions
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Kerala budget increases social sector funding, but no hike in pensions

New Indian Express  

There has been a serious effort by the finance minister to sustain financial inputs in the social sector despite financial constraints. But the gender budget analysis presented shows total allocation for women and girls under all government departments together showed a rise of just 4%. Another highlight is the declaration that the pending social security pension payments will be paid …

Kerala Budget: Not a substantial allocation for health care sector
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Kerala Budget: Not a substantial allocation for health care sector

The Hindu  

The outlay of the State Budget presented by Finance Minister K. N. Balagopal in the Assembly on health care, which excludes health-related expenditure such as water and sanitation, is around ₹3,000 crore, which accounts for 1.74% of the proposed total government expenditure. The issue of poor government spending in the health sector had been plaguing the public health-conscious State like …

A vision for healthcare in India
2 months, 2 weeks ago

A vision for healthcare in India

The Hindu  

Health development is an integral part of social development. Universal health coverage is a vital consideration in an impoverished country such as India and expanding the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana to include a broader population base is without doubt a crucial initiative. Given that it’s the digital era, implementing the National Digital Health Mission to create digital health …

India’s Public Health Crisis: The Price of Privatisation
2 months, 3 weeks ago

India’s Public Health Crisis: The Price of Privatisation

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 25, 2024 12:00 IST - 9 MINS READ As a nation and as a population, India shares with its South and South-East Asian neighbours the legacy of a heavy public health burden shaped by a common historical past. A recent NITI Aayog report reveals that the average monthly per capita health expenditure remains at about 13 per …

The burden of health care on India’s poorest
7 months, 1 week ago

The burden of health care on India’s poorest

Hindustan Times  

In recent years, the Indian government has made significant strides in reducing the burden of health expenditure on the common citizen. A particular focus of the government has been to reduce the burden of severe economic shocks due to “catastrophic” health care expenditure such as hospitalisation. In order to understand the character of catastrophic health expenditure, Artha Global’s Centre for …

India’s neonatal burden and the challenges ahead
10 months, 2 weeks ago

India’s neonatal burden and the challenges ahead

Hindustan Times  

India is home to the largest population in the world. Subsequently, massive emphasis has been laid on reducing child mortality burden – under 5 mortality rate has decreased from improved from 109 deaths per 1,000 live births during 1990s to 42 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2019-21, according to the National Family Health Surveys. It has been promising to …

Electoral season and restructuring the health system
1 year, 1 month ago

Electoral season and restructuring the health system

The Hindu  

With the electoral season on, it is going to be raining manifestos. Both mentioned revamping the primary health system, ensuring universal health care, expanding human resources, increasing use of technology and so on. The NDA ensured continuity of policy by scrapping the Medical Council of India and establishing the National Medical Commission, further strengthened the rural health infrastructure with capital …

₹2,828.33 crore for public health in Kerala Budget
2 years, 1 month ago

₹2,828.33 crore for public health in Kerala Budget

The Hindu  

The State Budget 2023-24 speaks about transforming Kerala into global healthcare capital, providing better healthcare services, focussing on health tourism and expanding and modernising existing facilities. “Navakerala Karma Padhati-2”, which has clubbed Rebuild Kerala Initiative and four Missions — Haritha Keralam, Aardram, LIFE and Vidya Kiranam — together gets an outlay of ₹10 crores in the Budget, while a chunk …

Saving mothers: The Hindu Editorial on the importance of maternal health
2 years, 8 months ago

Saving mothers: The Hindu Editorial on the importance of maternal health

The Hindu  

Few things in science or social science are as incontestable as the importance of maternal health to human development. Maternal mortality indicates a woman’s ability to access health care, contraceptive devices, nutrition, and, in a sense, is a mark of the efficiency of a health-care system in responding to demands made of it. A recent study published in the peer-reviewed …

Reviving the ‘Kerala Model’ of development
3 years, 1 month ago

Reviving the ‘Kerala Model’ of development

The Hindu  

Kerala has long been recognised to have done many things right. For years the darling of development experts, non-governmental organisations and social activists, the ‘Kerala Model’ seemed to show that impressive levels of human development indicators — in health, education and quality of life, comparable even to some rich countries — could be achieved without a correspondingly high level of …

Chandrajit Banerjee | Budget must pave way for ambitious decadal growth
3 years, 2 months ago

Chandrajit Banerjee | Budget must pave way for ambitious decadal growth

Deccan Chronicle  

India’s economy has seen a sharp rebound after the first two waves of the Covid-19 pandemic and is expected to be the fastest growing major economy this year. Low government health expenditure leads to higher per capita out-of-pocket expenditure, impacting disposable incomes and access to healthcare. Therefore, India must increase its public expenditure on healthcare from the current 1.3 per …

Making India self-reliant in health care
3 years, 4 months ago

Making India self-reliant in health care

Hindustan Times  

The coronavirus pandemic presented to us a set of complex challenges, demanding a prompt response to the evolving situation in a manner that also facilitated rapid scaling up of the public health infrastructure, with an approach calibrated to the varying maturity of health systems across India. It also aims to provide health infrastructure, surveillance and research to make the country …

NFHS throws up a mixed bag for State
4 years, 3 months ago

NFHS throws up a mixed bag for State

The Hindu  

The latest National Family Health Survey, conducted under the aegis of the Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare, has thrown up a mixed bag for the State. But, the sheer drop in universal immunisation figures and nutritional parameters — an increase in anaemia across all age groups, increase in wasting and stunting in children under five years — calls …

World Population Day 2020: India need to focus on quality health care for all in the post-COVID-19 era
4 years, 8 months ago

World Population Day 2020: India need to focus on quality health care for all in the post-COVID-19 era

Firstpost  

With the private health sector failing to provide equitable healthcare, we should consider regulations to ensure it acts in the people’s interests and not in the quest for profits. As we highlight the population issues on World Population Day, it is also important to put India’s healthcare system under the scanner and address the barriers to delivering quality healthcare services …

Budget 2019: 'Pro-poor' Ayushman Bharat remains to be star in Healthcare sector schemes
6 years, 1 month ago

Budget 2019: 'Pro-poor' Ayushman Bharat remains to be star in Healthcare sector schemes

ABP News  

Within a short time of launch of #AyushmanBharat, the healthcare scheme, nearly 10 lakh people have benefited and have saved around 3000 crore rupees of their hard earned income : FM Piyush Goyal#Budget2019#BudgetforNewIndia pic.twitter.com/MYuJsXolyn — PIB India February 1, 2019 The Interim Budget for 2019-20 fiscal was laid down in the Rajya Sabha on Friday, where Finance Minister Piyush Goyal …

How Kerala staved off a health crisis following the floods that ravaged the state in August
6 years, 4 months ago

How Kerala staved off a health crisis following the floods that ravaged the state in August

Firstpost  

Kerala was faced with another potential health crisis post-floods — it has the highest number of diabetes and hypertension patients in India. “We would go to camps in the morning and the afternoon to ensure doxycycline tablets were provided,” said Anil Kumar, a junior health inspector in Ranni taluk hospital. “By the time I got involved in Ernakulam on August …

Opinion | Ayushman Bharat: a critical perspective
6 years, 4 months ago

Opinion | Ayushman Bharat: a critical perspective

Live Mint  

The Ayushman Bharat: National Health Protection Scheme has a defined benefit cover of ₹ 5 lakh per family per year covering over 10 crore families. Additionally, the states’ participation in the scheme mandates them to contribute funds for insurance, which naturally diverts funds allocated to building healthcare infrastructure within the state. The average per-capita health expenditure of the bottom three …

Can Ayushman Bharat make for a healthier India?
6 years, 11 months ago

Can Ayushman Bharat make for a healthier India?

The Hindu  

Yes | Vinod Paul Building a robust primary health-care system will save lives and lead to a healthier India Ayushman Bharat, the new, flagship health initiative of the government, has two dimensions. Providing insurance The second dimension of Ayushman Bharat is the National Health Protection Scheme which aims to provide health cover of ₹5 lakh per family per year for …

Poor funding, focus on short-term goals impede universal healthcare system in India
7 years, 2 months ago

Poor funding, focus on short-term goals impede universal healthcare system in India

Firstpost  

By Swagata Yadavar If the state and Centre can collaborate on a national tax system, why can’t India similarly create a nationwide universal healthcare system, created and run primarily by the government? India’s public health expenditure is 1.4 percent of GDP and now the National Health Policy 2017 talks about increasing it to 2.5 percent of GDP in the future. …

It takes a village
7 years, 2 months ago

It takes a village

Live Mint  

Under a blazing sun, in a poor tribal area in Madhya Pradesh, I try to get Kamla to speak. The goal of any public health system is universal healthcare, where every citizen is assured of quality health services, both preventive and curative. In this first column for Mint, I would like to share what I have learned about the public …

Health matters
7 years, 11 months ago

Health matters

The Hindu  

K. SUJATHA Rao’s Do We Care? Beginning with the origins of the country’s public health care delivery system, Sujatha Rao points to the extensive Health Survey and Development Report prepared in 1946 by Joseph Bhore of the Indian Civil Service over a three-year period. Tackling AIDS Sujatha Rao makes anecdotal references to her stint as the Director General of the …

National Health Policy: Breathing life into health care
8 years ago

National Health Policy: Breathing life into health care

The Hindu  

The new National Health Policy released last week presents a clear vision of how India’s sluggish health system can be galvanised to deliver health and well-being to all by 2030, to meet the Sustainable Development Goal on health. While espousing a strong public health approach and commitment to strengthening the public sector, the policy aims to draw upon the diverse …

Will budget 2017 go beyond insurance to address India’s huge health challenge?
8 years, 1 month ago

Will budget 2017 go beyond insurance to address India’s huge health challenge?

Live Mint  

In an interview to Mint last month, Esther Duflo, one of the world’s leading development economists, said, “I feel a deep sense of crisis when I think about education and health, especially for the poor. These figures are supported by World Bank data which indicates that the share of Out of Pocket expenditure in private health expenditure in India remains …

Odisha SUM Hospital fire: India's comatose health system is in desperate need of a lifeline
8 years, 5 months ago

Odisha SUM Hospital fire: India's comatose health system is in desperate need of a lifeline

Firstpost  

Odisha’s Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital mishap appears like a shrill alarm. The country’s comatose health system is in desperate need of a lifeline. The NDA government has, in its draft National Health Policy 2015, proposed a “National Health Rights Act, which will ensure health as a fundamental right, whose denial will be justifiable”. The SUM Hospital fire …

The ill health of the nation
8 years, 6 months ago

The ill health of the nation

The Hindu  

The National Health Accounts data for 2013-14 present fresh evidence that India continues to have a non-serious approach to the provision of universal health coverage to all its citizens. All these attributes are, once again, strongly borne out by the NHA data, which lay bare the extremely low government spending on health which, at 1.15 per cent of GDP, compares …

Remedying India’s healthcare colossus
8 years, 7 months ago

Remedying India’s healthcare colossus

The Hindu  

Between January and June 2014, 243 people out of 1,000 sought medical treatment within the public healthcare system of India, whereas 756 people out of 1,000 opted to visit a private doctor or private hospital. It is well known that the entire public healthcare system, from tertiary care hospitals in large cities to Primary Health Centres in rural areas, is …

Budget 2016: New health protection scheme to provide health cover up to Rs.1 lakh per family
9 years ago

Budget 2016: New health protection scheme to provide health cover up to Rs.1 lakh per family

India TV News  

New Delhi: The Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs and Information and Broadcasitng, Arun Jaitley has announced a New Health Protection Scheme in the Budget 2016-17. In his Budget address in the Parliament today, the Finance Minister expressed concern that a serious illness of family member causes severe stress on the financial condition of poor and economically weak families, shaking …

Madhya Pradesh: Cut in budget allocation may affect health sector
9 years, 11 months ago

Madhya Pradesh: Cut in budget allocation may affect health sector

Hindustan Times  

As the Madhya Pradesh government gears up to enumerate its priorities in health sector during World Health Day functions today, its budget allocation for the sector present a dismal picture. The state provides healthcare facilities to people through a network of 51 district hospitals, 66 civil hospitals, 334 community health centres, 1,171 primary health centres, 9,192 sub-health centres, 53 special …

63 million people faced with poverty due to healthcare expenditure
10 years, 2 months ago

63 million people faced with poverty due to healthcare expenditure

India TV News  

New Delhi: A whopping 63 million people are faced with poverty every year due to “catastrophic” expenditure over healthcare which neutralises the gains of rising income and various government schemes aimed to reduce poverty, according to the Health Ministry. “Incidence of catastrophic expenditure due to healthcare costs is growing and is now being estimated to be one of the major …

Unhealthy India: Only proper planning can reverse worrying disease trends
12 years ago

Unhealthy India: Only proper planning can reverse worrying disease trends

Firstpost  

In the wake of findings that India lags behind its its neighbours on key health parameters, Firstpost spoke to Lalit Dandona, Distinguished Research Professor, Public Health Foundation of India and Professor of Global Health at IHME. Dietary risk factors emerged as the number one risk factor to health in 2010, followed by high blood pressure, household air pollution from solid …

Envisaging a healthy growth
20 years, 6 months ago

Envisaging a healthy growth

The Hindu  

The state-run health care system in Karnataka is striving hard to overcome problems such as regional disparities and regain its former standards. The health infrastructure in certain regions, most notably the State's capital, Bangalore, and to a lesser extent the coastal towns of Mangalore and Manipal, has developed well but other areas, especially the rural areas where 60 per cent …

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