Nearly 13 percent increase in allocation for the health sector in the budget

Rs 89,155 crore has been allocated for the health sector in the Union Budget 2023-24, which is about 13 per cent higher than the amount of Rs 79,145 crore allocated in 2022-23. Along with this, a mission has also been announced to eradicate the disease called ‘Sickle Cell Anemia’ by 2047. Sickle cell is a genetic disease. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday presented the Union Budget for 2023-24 and said 157 new nursing colleges will be set up in addition to the existing 157 medical colleges established since 2014.

A mission will be launched to eliminate ‘sickle cell anemia’ by 2047, he said. It will provide awareness generation, universal screening of seven crore people in the age group of 0-40 years in the affected tribal areas, and counseling through the efforts of Central Ministries and State Governments. The Finance Minister said that encouraging collaborative research and innovation Faculty members from public and private medical colleges and private sector R&D team will be provided facilities for research in selected laboratories of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

The budget allocation for the Ministry of AYUSH has been increased from Rs 2,845.75 crore to Rs 3,647.50 crore, an increase of 28 per cent. Of the Rs 89,155 crore allocated in the budget, Rs 86,175 crore has been allocated to the Department of Health and Family Welfare, while Rs 2,980 crore has been allocated to the Department of Health Research. From the new financial year, the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) has been divided into two sub-schemes.

The first is the PMSSY itself and the second is the expenditure related to setting up 22 new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), for which Rs 6,835 crore has been allocated. The budget allocation for the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana for the year 2023-2024 is Rs 3,365 crore. Among these central sector schemes, the budget allocation for the National Health Mission has been increased from Rs 28,974.29 crore in 2022-23 to Rs 29,085.26 crore in 2023-24, and for the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) from Rs 6,412 crore 7,200 crore has been increased from Rs.

The allocation for the National Digital Health Mission-NHM has been increased from Rs 140 crore to Rs 341.02 crore. The budget allocation for the National Tele Mental Health Program has been increased from Rs 121 crore to Rs 133.73 crore. The budget allocation for autonomous bodies has been increased from Rs 10,348.17 crore in 2022-23 to Rs 17,322.55 crore in 2023-24. Among autonomous bodies, the allocation for the New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has been reduced from Rs 4,400.24 crore to Rs 4,134.67 crore. The allocation for ICMR has been increased from Rs 2,116.73 crore to Rs 2,359.58 crore.

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