It’s not the lack of oxygen that kills hundreds of children in hospitals of Uttar Pradesh each year, it’s India’s abysmal public health delivery system. “Gorakhpur is the symbol of the collapse of the primary health care system. “India’s new National Health Policy envisages health systems strengthening by increasing public health expenditure to 2.5 % by 2025 and increasing state health spending to more than 8% of their budget by 2020, but I don’t see it happening. India’s total health expenditure as percentage of GDP is around 4.7%, with out-of-pocket spending accounting for around 63% of this spend. This is Part 1 of a series on what ails India’s public health systems.

Source: Hindustan Times August 28, 2017 03:33 UTC