Budget 2024: Will Sitharaman give a higher dose of allocation for healthcare this time around?
Union Budget 2024: India, under PM Narendra Modi’s tenure, has seen a steady increase in healthcare allocation and spending. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the world, the government had highlighted healthcare as a priority sector.
The allocation for health in the recently presented Interim Budget for 2024-25 was especially crucial as India approached the 2025 deadline set by the National Health Policy (NHP) 2017 to increase health expenditure to 2.5% of GDP.
What Interim Budget had for the healthcare sector
In her interim Budget earlier this year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman outlined some significant plans for India’s healthcare sector. For 2024–25, the sector was allocated ₹90,171 crore from the budget — a significant increase from the ₹79,221 crore allotted in 2023–24.
The Interim Budget 2024-25 also introduced several significant healthcare measures. A new initiative to promote cervical cancer vaccination for girls aged 9-14 was launched, aiming to reduce this preventable disease.
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