With the present Government planning to cut on Healthcare expenditure by one-third of the original plan, while initial plan was to raise it to 2.5 percent of GDP. Finally, the government may be saving on Doctors fees, medical device prices etc. to bring it down to 1 percent of GDP. Already according to a central minister government will be saving 11000 crores by cutting on coronary stents and ortho implants.
They further plan to bring intraocular lenses, medicines, cardiac valves and highly overpriced pacemaker and other commonly used medical devices into price control net to save another 15000 crores. The new estimate of USD 25 billion for a three-year extension of the flagship health programme, down from an initial figure of about USD 33 billion, comes as Prime Minister pushes a multi-pronged agenda to revamp health services. India's health ministry has trimmed its cost estimates for…
