Need to strengthen domestic resources for meeting global health targets: Nadda

Union health minister J P Nadda Wednesday stressed on the need for increasing domestic resources as, he said, 85 per cent cost of the global health targets can be met internally.

Nadda said that the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs set by the UN General Assembly estimate the costs of health related targets in 67 low and middle-income countries that account for 75 per cent of the world's population.

"Under the ambitious scenario, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals health targets would require new investments increasing over time from an initial USD 134 billion annually to USD 371 billion, or USD 58 per person, by 2030," he said while speaking at the 2018 Partners' Forum here.

He added, "The analysis shows that 85 per cent of these costs can be met with domestic resources. We therefore need to strengthen our approach to increasing domestic resources."