How health care expenses hurt India: Medical bills make 6 crore people poor every year

Six crore fall into poverty every year or 7,000 people every day because of healthcare expenses. 

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India's healthcare sector has had several issues ranging from doctor to patient ratio, and bed to patient ratio that just add to the complications of healthcare in the country

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India's budgetary provision for health had remained stagnant at 1-1.4% for the past few years.

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70% of public healthcare in India is supported by the private sector and only 30% by the public sector, according to data provided by Ayushman Bharat yojna. 

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Despite India emerging as fastest growing (major) economy in the world and a major hub for sourcing of pharmaceuticals, people are slipping into poverty due to health expenses. 

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While large sections of its own citizens didn't have access to good health facilities, people from abroad were flying to India to get quality medical treatment at cheap rates. 

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"It is like a leaking bucket. Though a lot of effort is being put to bring people out of poverty, due to health expenses, people are slipping into poverty which is puzzling." 

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PM Modi had lately rolled out the world’s largest healthcare initiative to deal with high out-of-pocket healthcare expenses in India. 

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Ayushman Bharat-PM JAY programme will serve 10.7 crore families belonging to poor and vulnerable populations in India.

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