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Measures to Raise Public Health Expenditure
The latest available National Health Accounts (NHA), that provides healthcare expenditure for India and select States, is for the year 2014-15. A statement showing state-wise total health expenditure and Government health expenditure as percentage of Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) is given as a table.
Health Expenditure &Percentage to GSDP
| S/No. | States | Total Health Expenditure
(% GSDP) |
Government Health Expenditure
(% GSDP) |
| 1 | Assam | 3.3 | 1.0 |
| 2 | Andhra Pradesh | 4.3 | 0.7 |
| 3 | Bihar | 6.0 | 1.0 |
| 4 | Chhattisgarh | 3.6 | 1.0 |
| 5 | Gujarat | 2.1 | 0.7 |
| 6 | Haryana | 2.2 | 0.5 |
| 7 | Himachal Pradesh | 3.0 | 1.4 |
| 8 | Jammu & Kashmir | 4.1 | 1.4 |
| 9 | Jharkhand | 3.1 | 0.8 |
| 10 | Karnataka | 3.0 | 0.7 |
| 11 | Kerala | 4.5 | 0.8 |
| 12 | Madhya Pradesh | 3.9 | 1.0 |
| 13 | Maharashtra | 3.0 | 0.5 |
| 14 | Odisha | 4.9 | 1.0 |
| 15 | Punjab | 4.1 | 0.7 |
| 16 | Rajasthan | 3.5 | 1.1 |
| 17 | Tamil Nadu | 2.8 | 0.7 |
| 18 | Uttar Pradesh | 6.2 | 1.2 |
| 19 | Uttarakhand | 2.6 | 0.9 |
| 20 | Telangana | 2.3 | 0.5 |
Government has increased the total public health expenditure (Centre and States) from Rs.1.49 lakh crore in 2014-15 to Rs.2.25 lakh crore in 2017-18 (BE) according to Economic Survey 2017-18. Further, the National Health Policy, 2017 envisages raising Government health spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2025 in a time bound manner. It also envisages increasing State sector health spending to more than 8% of their budget by 2020.
The Minister of State (Health and Family Welfare), Smt Anupriya Patel stated this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha here today.-PIB
