Health
Budget in India
Dr KK Aggarwal
The primary job of any doctor
is to alleviate the pain and sufferings of a person without commercialising
it. This is also the fundamental duty of the government under Article 21
of the Constitution of India.
The government should
differentiate non-emergent from emergent care. In non-emergent care, even in UK
the waiting list can be in years, but emergent care must be given without
delay.
All government hospitals in
India should provide emergent care to all those who need it and if no bed is
available, they should be shifted to empanelled private sector with billing to
the government under the respective Ayushman Bharat scheme. Appropriate budget
should be allocated for this purpose.
Regarding preventive health
care, government should adopt the concept of one health. All budgets such as:
Budgets for Swachh Bharat Mission; budget for nutrition part of Women and Child
Development Ministry; Pharma budget part of Ministry of Chemical Fertilisers;
Plant and agriculture health part of agriculture ministry; Road traffic
accident part of surface transport ministry; Defence health part of defence
budget; air water earth pollution health budget of environment ministry, Budget
of ministry of science and technology (towards heath as a science); budget for
animal health part of Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and
Fisheries Ayush Ministry; School health budget of education ministry (HRD)
etc. should be added and run like one budget with no duplication or overlap.
Dr KK Aggarwal
Padma Shri Awardee
President Elect Confederation of
Medical Associations in Asia and Oceania
(CMAAO)
Group Editor-in-Chief IJCP Publications
President Heart Care Foundation of India
Past National President
IMA
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