Rajya Sabha MPS Tell Center spends more on healthcare

Rajya Sabha. File | Image source: ANI

Rajya Sabha MPS said in a debate at the Ministry of Health on Tuesday (18 March 2025) that the coalition government’s budget allocation for health care needs to be enhanced to match health expenditures in other developing countries.

Members of Congress urged the center to make serious mistakes in the management of healthcare infrastructure nationwide, urging the center to play an active role in improving the situation.

Initiating the debate, Tiruchi Siva, senior DMK leader, pointed out that healthy allocations accounted for only 2% of the union budget estimates, down 2.5% from 2017-18. “It didn’t go up, it’s only 1.9 percent now. He asked.

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Mr. Siva asked why the coalition government, instead of controlling the population, tried to implement demarcation. He said birth control should be carried out nationwide and demarcation should be carried out after the sport. Instead, the southern states controlled their populations, while the northern states did not. “The government should focus on unity in population control and family planning,” he said. “Southern states always stand first, which is why we are hurt, which is why we are punished for everything,” he said, medical education has been losing since the implementation of the national qualifications and admissions exams.

Better life expectancy

BJP leader Bhagawat Karad said the center’s policy has increased life expectancy from 67 years in 2014 to 70.7 years in 2024.

AAM AADMI party MP Sandeep Kumar Pathak said the National Health Mission and Ayushman Bharat aim to fund the states for the Primary Health Care Centre (PHC) and that the centre is affordable. “However, when evaluating the program, the center found that 80% of PHCs failed,” he claimed.

RJD MP Manoj Jha said that the crisis in our health care system is due to reliance on private health care and capitalism. “A new type of medical poverty is being created and if our public health care breaks down, India’s health will worsen,” he said.