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COVER STORY | Health

When Healthcare

Facilities Improved,

Positive Results

Followed

Increased health spending
saved people’s money
During the last decade, tremendous change has
Scope of Medical 13,86,157 been seen in the matter of financing health-related
Education has Changed
allopathic doctors are activities. The central government has reduced
the burden of the common man’s expenditure on
registered, according
Seats
treatment through its welfare schemes. There has
to the National
Medical College Medical Graduate 51,348 1,15,900 811 people are served been a big change in the situation from 2013-14
Medical Commission.
to 2021-22. In 2013-14, the government’s share
in the total expenditure on health was 28.6%,
by 1 doctor
and the common people’s share was 64.2%. In
157
2014 387 2025 780 2014 2025 Medical colleges have 2021-22, the expenditure of common people on
treatment has fallen to 39.4%. At the same time,
Medical Postgraduate upgrading district/referral about 48 per cent.
the government’s expenditure has increased to
Seats
been approved by
hospitals, out of which
The Economic Survey 2024-25 says Ayushman
work has started in 131.
Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana has
helped reduce
75
23 *
expenditure,
For the super specialty
registering
2014 31,185 2025 74,306 AIIMS 2014 7 2025 Projects were approved. out-of-pocket
block under Pradhan
* Graduate studies started in 19 of these. Mantri Swasthya Suraksha savings of
Yojana. Out of these, 71 over Rs 1.25
projects are completed. lakh crore.
Central Government. There has been a significant of new AIIMS and medical colleges have been opened
reduction in the expenditure incurred individually as in the country. This increasing number of hospitals
a percentage of total health expenditure. Also, there shows that medical seats are also increasing at
has been a significant increase in government health the same pace, so that the dream of a poor child to
expenditure. So far, about two lakh health-wellness become a doctor is easily fulfilled. No middle class
centers have been built. Now, special work is being child has to go abroad for medical studies out of com-
done on building the network of good hospitals and pulsion. A campaign is underway to increase medical
modern labs at the block level. In the 6-7 decades of seats. In the last 11 years, a total of more than one
independence, what could not have been achieved lakh new seats of MBBS and MD have been added.
has been done in the last 11 years. A record number In fact, in a country where access to healthcare was

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