• The government expected to spend Rs. 2,23,846 crore in the coming year on health and well being with a 137% increase from last year.
• This includes a Rs. 60,030-crore outlay on drinking water and sanitation, a Rs. 2,700-crore outlay on nutrition — both of these are handled by separate Ministries — nearly Rs. 49,000 crore as Finance Commission grants and Rs. 35,000 crore toward vaccination.
• The Health Ministry expects to spend Rs. 71,269 crore in 2021-22, an increase of roughly 9% from the budget estimates of last year. But this will be less than what the Ministry actually spent last year.

New scheme: PM Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana

• Sitharaman announced a new Centrally sponsored scheme, PM Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana, that would be launched on an outlay of about Rs. 64,180 crore over 6 years to improve primary, secondary, and tertiary care health systems, strengthen national institutions, create new institutions to cater to detection and cure of new and emerging diseases.
• This scheme aims to support 17,788 rural and 11,024 urban Health and Wellness Centres, establish integrated public health labs in all districts, strengthen the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), its five regional branches and 20 metropolitan health surveillance units, establish nine Bio-Safety Level III laboratories and four regional National Institutes of Virology.

https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-miscellaneous/tp-others/137-increase-in-health-and-well-being-spend/article33722694.ece

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