During Budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman informed that government of India proposed to attach medical college to district hospital in PPP mode. "There is a shortage of qualified medical doctors, both general practitioners and specialists. It is proposed to attach a medical college to a district hospital in PPP mode, details of the scheme to be worked out soon.

Viability gap funding window to be set up to cover hospitals, with priority given to aspirational districts that don't have hospitals empanelled under Ayushman Bharat scheme," the Finance Minister said. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the full Budget of the second term of the Narendra Modi government. Sitharaman presented the Union Budget for financial year 2020-21.