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12th Plan will triple spending on health: PM
Saturday November 03, 2012 09:53:23 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said the 12th Five Year Plan will
enhance spending on health up to three times and that more medical
and nursing colleges were needed to overcome a shortage of trained
human resources in the sector.
Speaking at the foundation stone laying of the Lady Hardinge
Medical College project here, the prime minister also said that
health indicators reflected a country's overall well-being.
"Recognising the need to provide for the complex challenges in the
health sector, the allocation for health has been enhanced three
times in the 12th Plan as compared with the 11th Plan allocation,"
he said.
He said the government was paying more attention to medical
education. In the last three years, the number of MBBS seats in
medical colleges rose by over 30 percent and the seats for
post-graduate programmes by 51 percent.
"However, the availability of trained human resources remains a
challenge. We need to set up more nursing and medical colleges to
increase both undergraduate and postgraduate seats in the 12th
Plan," he said.
The prime minister said that nutrition, drinking water,
sanitation, housing and education, particularly of the girl child,
were increasingly being underlined as the social determinants of
health.
He added that generic drugs would be made available free in all
public hospitals across the country to help the poor reduce their
out of pocket expenditure on health.
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