HEALTHCARE BUDGET
- February 2, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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HEALTHCARE BUDGET
TOPIC: Economy/Health
Context- The total health expenditure budget in 2022-23 has increased 0.23 per cent to Rs 86,200 crore unlike last year which saw 137 per cent increase in health and wellbeing expenditure.
Concept-
The key highlights of the budget are as follows:
- An open platform for National Digital Health Ecosystem to be rolled out.
- ‘National Tele Mental Health Programme’ for quality mental health counselling and care services to be launched.
- A network of 23 tele-mental health centres of excellence will be set up, with NIMHANS being the nodal centre and International Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIITB) providing technology support.
- SakshamAnganwadi
- Integrated benefits to women and children through Mission Shakti, Mission Vatsalya, SakshamAnganwadi and Poshan 2.0.
- Two lakh anganwadis to be upgraded to SakshamAnganwadis.