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Budget 2 21 Health
Union

Vaccine of Reforms

So far, this is India’s biggest Health Budget at Rs 2,23,846 Crore.

There is a steep hike of 137 per cent than last year

his is the first time that health sector has HOW HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE
got such a huge share in India’s General WILL IMPROVE
TBudget. According to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, health and wellbeing is the most
important pillar out of the six pillars of Self- ,000
Reliant India. This is reflected in the fact that this
year there is an increase of 137 per cent than last C o e e t a e o COVID 19
year’s outlay of Rs 94,452 Crore. vaccine
Based on the lessons learnt from the Corona
pandemic, the Government has insisted on
creating a strong framework for investigation 2 o ea t
and treatment for detection and prevention of units in 11 States
infectious diseases. A network of laboratories
from block to district and national level will 2 , 12
be created for investigation of such diseases.
Four regional virology labs will be set up. So far, total Rural and
only Pune has such a lab in the entire country. U a Hea t
Operationalisation of 17 new Public Health Units We e Ce t e to
and strengthening of 33 existing Public Health e et e PM
Aat aN a S a t
Units at Points of Entry, i.e. at 32 Airports, 11 B a at Yo a a

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