New Delhi [India], September 12 (ANI): The parliamentary standing committee on Health and Family Welfare has appreciated the Ministry of Ayush for strengthening the cancer care plan and management in Ayush.

New Delhi [India], September 12 (ANI): The parliamentary standing committee on Health and Family Welfare has strongly recommended to the government to reckon its diplomacy to appeal to the comity of nations to conduct studies to identify the origin of Covid-19 as it can have colossal consequences regarding Bio-safety and Bio-security of the world.

New Delhi Mar 24 PTI Expressing concern at the wide inter-state and intra-state disparity in healthcare infrastructure across the country a parliamentary panel has flagged that most of the states have not enhanced the share of the health budget to more than eight per cent of their total budget in the last five yearsThe Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare in its report tabled in Parliament on Thursday recommended that all the states and Union territories should emulate Delhi and Puducherry and increase the share of health spending in their budgetsThe panel said the Department of Health and Family Welfare should persuade the states to achieve the budgetary health expenditure of eight per centDespite the much emphasised guidelines of the National Health Policy-2017 the states and UTs barring Delhi and Puducherry have not enhanced the share of health budget to more than eight per cent of the total state budget in the last five years the committee highlightedIt said the states with poor financial resources and inefficient fiscal capacity have a herculean task ahead to overcome the situation of fragile health infrastructure vis-a-vis the demand of accessible and affordable healthcare facilitiesIn order to maximise the benefits of economic social and human capital the states must invest in institutionalising a robust healthcare ecosystem that is capable of delivering adequate healthcare services to the masses at the ground level especially in rural urban and tribal regions the panel saidThe sooner the states realise the difference a resilient and strong health system makes the better will be the outcome on all social as well as economic indicators it addedThe committee further noted that health has always remained an underperforming sector and despite funds allocation many states are not performing well on several health parametersMany states lack the adequate absorption capacity to judiciously manage the funds allocated it pointed outThe panel therefore recommended that the Centre should incentivise the states to make a ground-level assessment of the efficacy of the health policies and help them design policies suitable to the needs of the respective regionsThe Centre must coordinate with the states to maximise the output under the central sector as well as the centrally-sponsored schemes it notedThe panel highlighted that robust health policies and judicious allocation of funds under different schemes are fundamental for the optimal performance of the statesIt said healthcare services remain highly fragmented which further aggravates the problem of high out-of-the-pocket expenditure in the countryThe committee accordingly recommends the health ministry to make efforts in developing a better healthcare financing mechanism and ensuring the delivery of quality healthcare services the report said PTI PLB RC