State Health Policy: Govt aims to up its spending

LUCKNOW: The state government plans to increase its spending on healthcare from 1.4% to 2.5% of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP).

The state government was also contemplating to establish a separate public health cadre to manage the administrative works while the doctors and para medical staff would be under clinical cadre, said principal secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Prashant Trivedi after a meeting on the draft state health policy with top health experts in the city on Monday.

Trivedi said the views and suggestions given by the experts would be incorporated in the new health policy to be implemented within three months.

UP will be the second state after Karnataka to have a health policy, he said.

THE VIEWS AND SUGGESTIONS GIVEN BY THE EXPERTS WOULD BE INCORPORATED IN THE NEW HEALTH POLICY TO BE IMPLEMENTED WITHIN THREE MONTHS

The health policy focuses on finance, social and environmental determinants, governance, access to medicines, diagnostics and medical technologies, human resources, and service delivery. One fourth of additional funds would be expected from the central government and rest would be mobilized by the state government.

The government also plans to expand and deepen risk polling mechanism , strengthen strategic purchasing route and reform public finance management mechanism.