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2021 Union Budget: Takeaways for health

Unsurprisingly, the COVID-19 pandemic took centre-stage during the presentation of the 2021 Union Budget by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. “The preparation of this Budget was undertaken in circumstances like never before,” she said in opening remarks to Parliament. “We knew of calamities that have affected a country or a region within a country, but what …

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Fourth lowest health budget in the world

India’s lacklustre health budget “may have affected how far people were shielded from the COVID-19 outbreak” according to the latest “Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2020” published by Oxfam. India’s total government spending on health equated to four percent of the overall government budget, according to the report. This is just a quarter of the …

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