{"id":306926,"date":"2018-12-12T17:33:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T17:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306926"},"modified":"2018-12-12T17:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T17:33:57","slug":"india-set-to-increase-public-health-spending-to-2-5-of-gdp-says-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-set-to-increase-public-health-spending-to-2-5-of-gdp-says-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"India set to increase public health spending to 2.5 % of GDP, says PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-302680 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/modi-swachhta-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/modi-swachhta-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/modi-swachhta-768x697.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/modi-swachhta-696x632.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/modi-swachhta-463x420.jpg 463w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/modi-swachhta.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>poopIndia is set to increase its public health spending to 2.5 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) by 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on December 12 while addressing 2018 Partners&#8217; Forum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi also said that India is one of the first nations to advocate focused attention on adolescence and to implement a full-fledged health promotion and prevention programme for adolescents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The PM said, \u201cWe are committed to increasing India\u2019s health spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2025, reaching to more than $100 billion. This will mean an actual increase of 345 per cent over the current share, in just eight years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Partners\u2019 Forum is a two-day global conference, in which 1,200 high-level delegates from 85 nations, including ministers from 25 nations are participating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe will continue to work for the betterment of people. Women, children and youth will continue to remain at the heart of every policy, programme or initiative,&#8221; PM Modi further said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>poopIndia is set to increase its public health spending to 2.5 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) by 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on December 12 while addressing 2018 Partners&#8217; Forum. PM Modi also said that India is one of the first nations to advocate focused attention on adolescence and to implement a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":302680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306927,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306926\/revisions\/306927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}