Budget 2025: Will FM Sitharaman give India’s healthcare sector the boost it desperately needs?
India Budget 2025: India’s healthcare sector endured some of its toughest challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, with lasting effects still felt today.
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Even before that, in 2017, the National Health Policy (NHP) set a target to increase health expenditure to 2.5% of the nation's GDP — a goal that has its deadline falling due this year. While the sector has seen some notable allocations under the Modi government, significant gaps remain between what has been promised and what has been delivered.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will table the Union Budget 2025 this Saturday, and in the run-up to the big day, the healthcare sector expects significant attention from the government.
Monetary allocations alone cannot help enhance the healthcare sector in a country where high levels of income inequality persist, experts say. Government intervention through the Budget, however, could safeguard the lives of India’s ‘missing middle class’ and those who are pushed to the brink of poverty trying to pay heavy medical bills, despite lacking the means to do so.
Securing the health of India’s ‘missing middle class’
As India aims to become one of the world’s top three economies, 350 million of its citizens still lack access to basic medical care provided with any kind of health
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