Govt aims to raise health services expenditure to 2.5% of GDP by 2025

In reply to a query during Question Hour, Harsh Vardhan said the public expenditure on health services is "continuously increasing"

The government's expenditure on health services has increased continuously over the years and the target is to raise it to 2.5 per cent of the country's GDP by 2025, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan told the Rajya Sabha Tuesday.

In reply to a query during Question Hour, he said the experience of last 10 years shows that with every passing year, the public expenditure on health services is "continuously increasing".

The minister informed that the National Health Policy 2017 envisages increasing the public health expenditure to 2.5 per cent of the GDP by 2025.

The policy recommends that State governments should spend more than