‘ Polio- free status is a huge milestone for India’

Kajalgaon ( Assam), May Mumbai, May 18: An FIR 18: The indefinite curfew has been registered in Chirang district was against a dismissed police stone for India considering results in almost 60 per cent experience catastrophic protection against rising on Sunday relaxed for 15 constable for allegedly that India accounted for of health expenses in India health expenditure and 10 healthcare costs in India hours following cheating a retired FCI more than half of the global being incurred by houseper cent are driven to poverleads to nearly 6.2 per cent improvement of the situmanager of ` 5.4 lakh, the polio cases in 2009 with 741 holds at the point of service ty. of total households in India ation in Khajobari area police said on Sunday. cases reported that year. use — this is one of the India spends 3.9 per cent of falling below the poverty where a man was abductAccused Milind Salvi, a Most experts believed that highest in the world. its GDP on healthcare, line due to healthcare ed and killed two days resident of neighbouring India will be the last counFor many people, paying which is similar to what its expenditure. ago. Navi Mumbai, duped 71try to achieve polio eradicafor medicines and for treatneighbouring/ Asian counSince the launch of Curfew was relaxed year- old victim Narayan tion but India proved them ment simply entails triptries spend. NRHM, the public health from 5 am to 8 pm as the Hate by promising to clear wrong and stopped Q: Is India spending enough ping over the poverty line. However, only 31 per cent expenditure ( PHE) as persituation calmed down his pending pension by poliovirus circulation in on health? Almost 50% of families of total health expenditure centage of GDP has in Khajobari area, the falsely boasting about his January 2011. The achieveA: Much of India’s health with a member affected by ( just over 1 per cent of GDP) increased from 0.94 per cent police said. contacts with top Congress ment in India is not only challenges are caused by cancer experience catacomes from public funds. in 2007 to 1.04 per cent in Three armed militants leaders, they said. significant for India but for insufficient access to care strophic spending and 25 The gap in public financ2011- 12. entered the house of a An FIR was on Saturday the global programme as it and the existence of numerper cent are made poor as a ing on healthcare means This should be enhanced. man named Deepak registered against Salvi on Q: What are your views on brings the world closer to ous barriers, including consequence of the disease; that people have to bear We call for redesigning Sutradhar ( 35), dragged charges of cheating and India’s success on polio? the goal of global polio financial ones. The predom25 per cent of Indian famihealthcare expenses out of healthcare to achieve better him out and took him breach of trust following a A: Achieving made. polio- free staeradication. inance of direct out- of lies with a member with their pockets. service delivery and coordiaway with them on complaint Hate tus is a monumental mile- Despite, this historic pocket ( OOP) expenditure cardiovascular disease Lack of adequate social nation. Friday night.

Raising concerns over “in- equities” both in coverage and access to health care services in India, Dr Nata Menabde, WHO representative to India says that much of India’s health challenges are caused by insufficient access to care and the existence of numerous barriers, including financial ones, in an exclusive interview to Teena Thacker. progress, the risk of polio persists in India in view of the continuing poliovirus transmission in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria and the outbreaks in 2013 in Syria, Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia etc.