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India's health inequality made worse by reduced health budget: Oxfam report

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Constant underfunding of the public healthcare system in the last decade has worsened health infrastructure, the Oxfam India report shows.

Veenu Sandhu New Delhi
When it comes to healthcare, people in general category are better off than Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) households; Hindus are better off than Muslims; the rich do better than the poor; men are better off than women; and the urban population fares better than the rural.

These are the findings of Oxfam India’s “Inequality Report 2021: India’s Unequal Healthcare Story”. The report says that the absence of universal health coverage has starkly and disproportionately affected marginalised groups at a time when socio-economic inequalities in India are growing because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

While 65.7 per cent of

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