: Health allocation sees a hike of 13% #FinanceIndia #StockMarketNEWS #Business Mission to eliminate sickle cell anaemia by 2047 announced New Delhi: The health sector has been allocated `89,155

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Health allocation sees a hike of 13% #FinanceIndia #StockMarketNEWS #Business
Mission to eliminate sickle cell anaemia by 2047 announced

New Delhi: The health sector has been allocated `89,155 crore in the union budget 2023-24, a hike of around 13% over `79,145 crore allocated in 2022-23, with the government also announcing a mission to eliminate sickle cell anaemia by 2047.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the union budget for 2023-24 on Wednesday and said 157 new nursing colleges will be established in co-location with the existing 157 medical colleges established since 2014.

“A mission to eliminate sickle cell anaemia by 2047 will be launched. It will entail awareness creation, universal screening of 7 crore people in the age group of 0-40 years in affected tribal areas, and counselling through collaborative efforts of central ministries and state governments,” she said.

The finance minister said facilities in select Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) laboratories will be made available for research by public and private medical college faculty members and private sector research and development teams for encouraging collaborative research and innovation.

The budget allocation for the AYUSH ministry has been increased from `2,845.75 crore to `3,647.5 crore, recording a 28% increase.

Out of `89,155 crore, `86,175 crore has been allocated to the Department of Health and Family Welfare, while `2,980 crore to the Department of Health Research. From the new financial year, the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) has been bifurcated into two sub schemes, the first being the PMSSY itself and the second one is the establishment expenditure of 22 new AIIMS for which `6,835 crore has been allocated.