India to increase public-health spending to 2.5% of GDP: Modi
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India is set to increase its public health spending to 2.5% of its gross domestic product (GDP) by 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today.
Addressing the 2018 Partners' Forum in New Delhi, he also said India is one of the first countries to advocate focused attention on adolescence and to implement a full-fledged health promotion and prevention program for adolescents.
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Spending on health to increase from 1.15% to 2.5%
As of now, the country spends 1.15% of the GDP on health. The Partners' Forum meet this year will focus on improving multi-sectoral action for results, sharing solutions and capturing the best practices and knowledge within the health sector and among related sectors.
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Mission Indradhanush has covered 8.4mn pregnant women in last 3yrs
Th PM said that under Mission Indradhanush, a massive immunization program, India has covered 32.8 million children and 8.4 million pregnant women over the last three years.
"A lot of progress remains to be done. From bigger budgets to better outcomes and from mindset change to monitoring, there are a lot of interventions required," he told the gathering, which comprised experts from several countries.