India to Increase Its Allocation for Healthcare Sector
New Delhi: India will endeavour to increase allocation for the health sector from a dismal 0.9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) to two percent, Minister of State for Industry Ashwini Kumar said Monday.// Speaking in a Global Healthcare Conference organised by the industry lobby Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Kumar said the government had in the p...Allocation for Health, Education Not Enough: UN Official
Though the allocation in India's budget 2007-08 for health and education has been increased, there is scope for even more, feels Minar Pimple// , deputy director (Asia), UN Millennium Campaign. "The government has actually committed six percent (of the budget) to education and three percent to health," Pimple told IANS in a telephonic interview. This, he said, though marks...Allocation Of Hospitals In Rural Areas
Total number of government allopathic doctors in the country are 73557. There are 22273 numbers of doctors at Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in position in rural areas as on March 2006. As on 1.1.2007, total numbers of beds available in the rural government hospitals are 132475 and 340308 beds are available in urban government hospitals including Community Health Centres (CHCs). 75...