Budget 2025 Expectations: Health Sector Needs 5% Allocation, Salary Hike & R&D Boost

1/29/2025

Delhi (28/01/2025): Ahead of Budget 2025, Dr. Dilip Bhanushal, President of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), has called for a significant increase in healthcare spending. He emphasized the need to raise the health budget allocation to 5% of GDP, improve salaries for healthcare professionals, and boost research & development. With India facing a rising burden of non-communicable diseases, Dr. Bhanushal stressed the urgent need for better infrastructure, human resource investment, and medical research funding. Will the government meet these expectations? Stay tuned for Budget 2025 updates!

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00:00According to WHO, there is no one-size-fits-all, so depending upon the priorities of our nation,

00:10the health budget, which is very meagre right now, it's 1.28, and what I am in demand

00:18is that the health budget should be increased by at least 5%.

00:23The government was planning to have 2.5% in 2025, we are nowhere near it, it's only 1.28

00:29right now, what they are spending, so our demand is that health budget should be increased

00:35to 5%.

00:36Sir, what are other demands?

00:39See, there are three components of health budget, one is infrastructure development.

00:46Infrastructure development of your healthcare system, like primary health centres, your

00:52government hospitals, your PHCs, tertiary hospitals, secondary hospitals, in the two-tier,

00:59three-tier and one-tier cities, that's infrastructure development.

01:05Then human resources, allocating funds for training and hiring professionals.

01:13If you see the salaries of, they are very meagre.

01:19So unless we give them sufficient funds, especially people, doctors who are working

01:26in the villages, in the peripheries, if you don't compensate them with proper, they are

01:32not going to work.

01:33So the second important is human resources.

01:36Third is about research and development.

01:41That has a lot of money has to be put into this, because India being such a vast country

01:46and we have been facing so much of non-common diseases, so a lot of human resources development

01:52should be done.

01:53So these are basically the three points.

Budget 2025 Expectations: Health Sector Needs 5% Allocation, Salary Hike & R&D Boost – IMA President

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