Health Care Budget 2021 UPSC
- Covid 19 pandemic has tought the world is that health needs to be a priority.
- Globally Indians had the highest out of pocket health expenditure
- A push of infrastructure and health care spending
- Overall Budget outlay for health and well-being is Rs.2.23 lakh crore
- 137% increase over 2020-21
- Rs.35,000 crores for the COVID-19 vaccination programme (with a promise to provide more if the need arises)
- Prime Minister Atmanirbhar Bharat Swasth Bharath Yojana (New centrally sponsored scheme (Rs.64,180 over 6 years))
- Aims to
- Improve primary, secondary and tertiary health care systems
- Strengthen national institutions
- Create new institutions to cater to the detection and cure of new and emergency diseases.
- Support 17,788 rural and 11,204 urban health and wellness centers
- Establish integrated public health labs in all districts
- Strengthen national center for disease control (NCDC), its five regional branches, and 20 metropolitan health surveillance units.
- Establish nine Bio-safety level III laboratories and four regional National Institutes of Virology.
- Aims to
- Training and Job creation in healthcare through the setting up of the National Commission for Allied Healthcare Professionals and the National Nursing and Midwifery Commission.
- Saksham Anganwadi scheme
- Through this program, 2.5 lakh anganwadis are to be upgraded over the next 5 years. T
- The scheme will introduce upgraded facilities like smart teaching, smart learning, crèche facilities, etc.
- Poshan 2.0
- A merger of supplementary nutritional programs and POSHAN ABHIYAN
- Intensified strategy to improve nutritional outcomes in 112 aspirational districts.
- Urban Swachh Bharat 2.0 Mission
- Launched at an outlay of Rs 1.41 lakh crore over five years
- Focus on complete faecal sludge management, wastewater treatment, source segregation, management of waste from urban construction, bioremediation of legacy dumpsites
- Jal Jeevan Mission Urban
- An outlay of Rs 2.87 lakh crore, with 2.86 crore households to get tap connections in 500 Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) cities, over five years.
- A pneumococcal vaccine which is limited to just five States will be rolled out across the country, preventing more than 50,000 child deaths annually
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