Out of Pocket Expenditure Current Affairs, GK & News
Economic Survey: Health Expenditure at 2.1% of GDP in FY23
Health Expenditure has been a major concern for the government since the COVID pandemic. As the pandemic started reducing, the governments were burdened heavily to focus on the lost track of other disease elimination programs. For instance, the cases of malaria, AIDS, hepatitis, etc in India and several other countries increased exponentially. These diseases increased ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs - 2022
Topics: Economic Survey • government expenditure • health expenditure • Health Insurance Schemes • Out of Pocket Expenditure
Punjab Aam Aadmi Clinics
The World Health Organization says that more than 65% of Indians are making out-of-pocket health expenditures. This means, they are paying for their health expenditures from their own pockets. Also, only 17% of the citizens have health insurance. To solve these two problems, health insurance, and expenditure, the Aam Aadmi Party launched the Mohalla Clinics ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs • India Nation & States Current Affairs • States Current Affairs
Topics: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) • Arvind Kejriwal • Bhagwant Mann • Health insurance • Health insurance in India • Mohalla Clinic • Mohalla Clinics • Out of Pocket Expenditure • rural areas • World Health Organisation (WHO)
Providing Peritoneal Dialysis Facility at Homes
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is planning to offer peritoneal dialysis facility to kidney patients at their homes under the Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme (PMNDP). With the initiative, the government aims to achieve equity in patient access to home-based peritoneal dialysis and reduce the overall cost of care to the system by ..
Topics: dialysate • National Health Mission • Out of Pocket Expenditure • peritoneal dialysis • peritoneum • PMNDP • Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme