Lok Sabha Question No. 78 (STARRED), answered on 2021-02-05
Subject: Funds for Corona Crisis
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Rajan Baburao  Vichare, Deepak Baij

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 78 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 5 TH FEBRUARY , 2021 FUNDS FOR CORONA CRI SIS

## †*78. SHRI RAJAN VIC HARE: SHRI DEEPAK BAIJ:

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

- (a)  whether  his  Ministry  has  been  allocated  separate  funds  to  deal  wit
- Corona crisis, if so, the details thereof
- (b) whether some new hospitals have been set up by the Government especially for the treatment of Corona patients, if so, the details thereof; and
- (c)  the  amount  of  financial  assistance  sought  and  disbursed  to  dif States/UTs in the country to deal with the Corona crisis?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (DR. HARSH VARDHAN)

- (a)to ( c)A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEME NT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 78* FOR 5 TH FEBRUARY , 2021

The ' India COVID19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness package' of Rs 15,000 crores has been approved by the Cabinet on 22 nd April 2020 with an objective to prevent, detect and respond to the posed  by  COVID- 19.  The  funds  and  commodities  are allocated  to  the  states under various components of the package such as:

1. Component 1: Emergency COVID19 response
2. Component 2 :Strengthening National and State health Systems to suppor Prevention and Preparedness
3. Component  3: Strengthening  Pandemic  Resear ch  and  Multi - sector, National Institutions and Platforms for One Health
4. Component 4: Community Engagement and Risk Communication
5. Component 5: Implementation Management, Capacity Building, Monitoring and Evaluation

Central  government  has  provided directions  to  states  on  setting  up dedicated COVID wards and expansion of hospital capacity in various Centr government  in st itutions .  Besides,  Dedicated  COVID  Care  C entres  (DCCC), Dedicated COVID Health Centres (DCHC) and CO VID Dedicated H ospitals (DCH) have been set up by states as per the SOPs provided by Ministry Health  and  Family  Welfare  (MoHFW).  The  details  of  infrastructure  s strengthened is placed at Annexure I.

Under  the ' India  COVID19  Emergency  Response  and  Health  System Preparedness package', Rs.6309.90 crore has been released to the States/UTs, through National Health Mission (NHM). The details are given a Annexure -II .

## Annexure I

## Exponential Growthi n Health Infrastructure For Coivd - 19 Treatment

|   S.No. | Category                                  |   As on March 2020 | As on December 2020   | No. of fold increase   |
|---------|-------------------------------------------|--------------------|-----------------------|------------------------|
|       1 | Cat I. COVID dedicated hospitals          |                163 | 2219                  | 12                     |
|       2 | Cat II. Dedicated COVID health cent re s  |                  0 | 4300                  | -                      |
|       3 | Cat III. Dedicated COVID Care Centre      |                  0 | 8857                  | -                      |
|       4 | Oxygen supported beds                     |              50583 | 2,70,893              | 4.3                    |
|       5 | Total isolation beds (excluding ICU beds) |              41000 | 15,42,524             | 36                     |
|       6 | Total ICU beds                            |               2500 | 80,573                | 31                     |

## Annexure - II

## Central Release of Grants in aid under the India COVID -19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness Package during the FY 2020 -21

## As on 21.01.2021

(Rs. in Crore)

| S. No.   | Nameof the State/UTs                                  | Central Releases   |
|----------|-------------------------------------------------------|--------------------|
| 1 2      | Andaman &Nicobar Islands Andhra Pradesh               |                    |
| 3        | Arunachal                                             | 11.57 324.27 19.13 |
| 4        | Pradesh Assam                                         |                    |
| 5        |                                                       |                    |
|          |                                                       | 180.04 164.92      |
| 6        | Bihar                                                 | 17.14 74.21        |
|          | Chandigarh                                            | 2.46               |
| 7        | Chhattisgarh Dadra &Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu Delhi |                    |
| 8        |                                                       | 651.46             |
| 9 10 11  |                                                       | 11.49              |
|          | Goa                                                   |                    |
|          | Gujarat                                               | 273.46 157.35      |
| 12 13 14 | Haryana                                               | 47.90              |
|          | Himachal Pradesh Jammu &Kashmir Jharkhand             | 167.52             |
|          | Karnataka                                             | 57.53              |
| 15 16    |                                                       | 303.69 453.56      |
|          |                                                       | 36.52              |
| 17       | Kerala                                                |                    |
| 18 19    | Ladakh                                                |                    |
|          | Lakshadweep Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra                | 0.40               |
| 20       |                                                       | 256.94 592.82      |
| 21 22    |                                                       | 14.99 12.46        |
|          | Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram                             |                    |
| 23 24 25 |                                                       |                    |
|          | Nagaland                                              | 8.11               |
| 26 27    |                                                       | 8.21 109.13        |
|          | Orissa Puducherry Punjab                              | 7.06               |
| 28 29 30 | Rajasthan Sikkim                                      | 143.46 285.01      |
| 31       |                                                       | 5.44               |
|          | Nadu                                                  | 773.24 353.13      |
|          | Tamil Telangana Tripura                               |                    |
| 32 33 34 | Uttar                                                 | 17.58              |
| 35       | Pradesh Uttarakhand                                   | 474.78             |
| 36       | West Bengal                                           | 61.46 231.46       |
|          | Grand Total                                           | 6,309.90           |

Note:

1. For the FY 2020-21, the UT of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu have been combined.

2. Release  for the F.Y. 2020-21 is updated up to 21.01.2021 and is provisional.

3. The above releases are 100% Centrally funded.