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Concerns voiced over draft health chapter of 12th Plan
Wednesday August 08, 2012 08:48:26 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, or people's health movement network, has voiced
concern over the 12th Five Year Plan document's proposal for
restructuring the country's health system, saying it would
"effectively hand over health care to the corporate sector".
It said the draft health chapter of the Plan document has failed
to "build on the recommendations of the High Level Expert Group
set up by the Planning Commission and also misquoted the group's
recommendations in many places".
It says that while invoking the concept of Universal Health Care,
the draft chapter is "actually proposing a strategy that is far
removed from the basic tenets of Universal Health Care".
It says the plan document recommends increase in public
expenditure on health from the present 1 percent to 1.58 percent
of GDP, which, it says, is in sharp contrast to the high level
group's recommendation of increasing it to at least 2.5 percent of
the GDP.
"Secondly, it proposes that the central government's (which
collects most of the taxes) share in the additional health
expenditure would be less than half of what states would
contribute and that centre's contribution would be conditional on
states' contribution!"
"The Planning Commission seems to have decided that India will
continue to be among the bottom 10 nations in terms of percent GDP
spending on health," it says in a statement Wednesday.
It voices concern over the plan document proposing a transition
from "...the present system which is a mixture of public sector
service provision plus insurance, to a system of health care
delivered by a managed network". "
There is, thus, a road map envisaged where the government will
abandon its central role of providing health care and become
primarily just a 'manager' of the new system envisaged."
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