Health is “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease” according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Physical is about the body. Mental is about how people think and feel. Social talks about how people live with other people. It is about family, work, school, and friends.
Uttar Pradesh had been in the grips of a healthcare crisis long before Gorakhpur and Farrukhabad put the spotlight on the state’s ailing public health system. The state’s infant mortality rate is comparable to that of strife-torn African nations. There is one doctor for every 19,000 people; according to WHO, there should be one for every 1,000. This is the third of a four-part series that explores the state’s policy paralysis and places it against the larger backdrop of a systematic public health failure. In 2015-16, Uttar Pradesh spent 3.98 percent of its budget on healthcare, which is Rs 12,104 crore of an overall expenditure of Rs 3.04 lakh crore. The next year, the state spent 4.6 percent of its budget on healthcare and for 2017-18, the estimated expenditure is 4.46 percent. The money allocated for health policies serves as “oxygen”, which is hardly made available to Uttar Pradesh. The proposed budget for 2016-17 demanded Rs 30.4 crore for healthcare, of which only Rs 10.19 crore were approved by the Centre. In 2017-18, the demand was cut to Rs 20.01 crore but the Centre managed to further slash it to Rs 5.78 crore – barely 29 percent of the proposed amount. Uttar Pradesh’s per capita expenditure on health, at a mere Rs 452, is 70 percent of India’s national average. The state, which has more than 16 percent of the country’s population, gets only nine percent of India’s public health spending.Health, Health Infrastructure And Health Policy Of Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh Health System Strengthening Project
UPHSSP is a World Bank assisted project started to enhance Medical Health care facilities in Uttar Pradesh. Government of Uttar Pradesh has been accepted to start this project as per following norms:
State Innovations in Family Planning Services Project Agency (SIFPSA) has been a joint venture of Government of India, USAID and Government of Uttar Pradesh under Indo-US bilateral agreement for implementing the Innovations in Family Planning Services (IFPS) project in the State. During the two decades of successful implementation of IFPS project, SIFPSA has made its mark in the global arena in Family Planning and Reproductive Child Health.
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