1.5 lakh Ayushman Bharat Health & Wellness Centres to be set up by 2022: Survey

To promote preventive healthcare, 1.5 lakh Ayushman Bharat Health & Wellness Centres are proposed to be set up by 2022, according to the Economic Survey 2019-20.

The Survey was tabled in Parliament on Friday by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

A total of 28,005 such centres have already been set up as on January 14, 2020, it added.

"Under Mission Indradhanush, 3.39 crore children and 87.18 lakh pregnant women in 680 districts across the country have been vaccinated," the Survey noted.

New vaccines such as Measles-Rubella (MR), Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine, Rotavirus Vaccine and Inactivated Polio Vaccine have also been introduced, it added.

"As per the latest National Health Accounts (NHA) 2016-17, the out of pocket expenditure as a percentage of total health expenditure has declined from 64.2 per cent in 2013-14 to 58.7 per cent in 2016-17," the Survey said.

Primary healthcare accounts for 52.1 per cent of India's current public expenditure on health as per the National ...