IMA urges government to enhance health allocation in budget to minimum 2.5 pc of GDP

New Delhi, [India], July 6, (ANI): The Indian Medical Association has demanded increased allocation of financial resources in the budget, advocating a tax-based system of health financing, the medical body said in a letter written to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday. Indicating that government spending on health was low, the medical body said that allocations varying from 1.1 to 1.6 per cent of GDP by the v