: Interview: ‘No nation has achieved equitable healthcare without spending on public health’ #IndiaNEWS The wish list for India’s health sector, particularly for greater investment, has always

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Interview: ‘No nation has achieved equitable healthcare without spending on public health’ #IndiaNEWS
The wish list for India’s health sector, particularly for greater investment, has always been long. It was generally felt that as Covid-19 advanced on us, the destruction it left behind would have led to increased health spending and a greater focus on health, particularly from federal budgets. But, in the Union Budget 2022-’23, that has not happened.The wish list for the health sector is long, from a fundamental strengthening of the healthcare delivery system, primary and secondary healthcare centres, doctors, equipment, disease surveillance systems that would help you spot a pandemic and perhaps respond to it better across the country.Has the Union Budget not responded to a need for better healthcare, even as we are in the midst of a pandemic, because the pandemic itself is now receding or, is there is a belief that the health system will take care of this on its own? Or, perhaps with greater private sector participation?To discuss what India’s healthcare system needs, budget spending, and future steps to improve healthcare, IndiaSpend spoke to K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India, and Yamini Aiyar, the president and CEO of the Centre for Policy Research.Excerpts from the interview:What came in the Budget was not in the league of what you...Read more

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