Government take measures to reduce out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure

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Government take measures to reduce out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure

According to National Health Accounts (NHA) Estimates, out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) as a percentage of total health expenditure (THE) has declined from 62.6 per cent in 2014-15 to 39.4 per cent in 2021-22. The government has been implementing measures to reduce OOPE while increasing government health expenditure (GHE), which has risen from 29.0 per cent in 2014-15 to 48.0 per cent in 2021-22. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has int…