Healthcare IT News February 12, 2024
Adam Ang

Healthcare leaders have weighed in on the interim 2024 Health Budget with hopes for investment in tech, particularly AI.

Ahead of the upcoming election of the 18th Lok Sabha (lower house of India’s bicameral parliamentary), Nirmala Sitharaman, union minister of Finance, announced the government’s interim 2024-2025 budget.

India plans to spend a provisional sum of Rs 90,171 crore ($10.8 billion) for healthcare in the coming fiscal year, increasing from Rs 79,221 crore ($9.5 billion) previously. Some of it will go to the following key projects:

  • extension of the health assurance scheme, Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, to include 1.5 million community health workers called ASHA (accredited social health activist) and rural child care (Anganwadi) workers and...

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