Lok Sabha Question No. 5498 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-26
Subject: Public Health Expenditure
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: A.K.P. Chinraj

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5498 TO BE ANSWERED ON 26 TH JULY, 2019

## PUBLIC HEALTH EXPEND ITURE

## 5498. SHRI A.K.P. CHINRAJ:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the public health expenditure as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) been increasing for the last three years but remained within a narrow band of 1.02 - 1.28 per cent of GDP;
- (b) if so, the details and reasons therefor;
- (c) the total budget allocated for healthcare in the country during the last three years year; and
- (d)  the  measures  taken  by  the  Government  to  provide  better  healthcare  facilities  acr country, S tate/UT - wise?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

(SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

- (a)  & (b): As per the National Health Accounts Estimates, public expenditure on health in India during the latest three years  for which data is  available is as under:

| Year    | Public expenditure on health as percentage of GDP   |
|---------|-----------------------------------------------------|
| 2013-14 | 1.15%                                               |
| 2014-15 | 1.13%                                               |
| 2015-16 | 1.18%                                               |

Contd……

- (c): The  budget  allocation  (BE)  for  the  Department  of  Health  & Family Welfare during the last three years and the current year is as follows:

| Year    | Budget Allocation (BE) (Rs in crores)   |
|---------|-----------------------------------------|
| 2016-17 | 37,061.55                               |
| 2017-18 | 47,352.51                               |
| 2018-19 | 52,800.00                               |
| 2019-20 | 61398.12 (Interim Budget)               |

(d): Government  has  taken  many  steps  to  provide  better  healthcare facilities across the country. Among others, major steps taken  are:

- Launch  of  Ayushman  Bharat,  which  comprises  of  two  components -(i) Health and Wellness Centres to provide Comprehensive Primary Healthcare and  (ii)  Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, which provides health coverage of Rs.  5.  lakhs  per  family,  per  annum,    to  more  than  10  crore  poor  and vulnerable families, for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization.
- National  Health Mission  provides  financial  and  technical  support  to States/UTs  for  accessible,  affordable  and  quality  healthcare  in  rural  and urban  areas.  All  States/UTs  are  supported  for  providing  free  services  in maternal  health,  child  health,  adolescent  health,  universal  immunization, family  planning,  communicable diseases such  as  Tuberculosis,  HIV/  AIDS, vector borne diseases like Malaria, Dengue and Kala Azar, Leprosy etc. and non-communicable diseases,  provision of free drugs & diagnostics in public health facilities, PM National Dialysis programme etc.

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