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Inequality Report 2021: India’s Unequal Healthcare Story
July 22 , 2021
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- It was an Oxfam report.
- It highlights how the low spending on public healthcare systems has led to inequalities in accessing healthcare, especially during the ongoing pandemic.
- It has marked the state of Kerala as a success story in the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- It states that the states such as Telangana, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan have less COVID-19 confirmed cases.
- Those states have been reducing inequalities in the healthcare system between the general category and SC and ST populations for the past few years.
- On the other hand, states such as Assam, Bihar and Goa, which has higher GDP expenditure on health, have higher Covid recovery rates.
- Less than one third of the country’s household is covered by an insurance scheme of the Government.
- The out-of-pocket health expenditure of 64.2% in India is higher than the world average.
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