Post Budget Quote 2018 – Suneeta Reddy, MD, Apollo Hospitals

“The Union Budget 2018 has taken a huge step in making healthcare affordable and accessible by launching the world’s largest healthcare scheme. It is indeed heartening that 40% of India’s population will be covered under a insurance scheme. The payor problem demanded urgent attention and the government has paid heed. If the Flagship National Health Protection Scheme to cover 10 Cr poor and vulnerable families with upto 5 Lakhs per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation is properly implemented and monitored we would have taken an important step in creating a Swasth Bharat. Effectively this initiative which amounts t USD 800 billion dollars tops even the US’ Medicaid programme which amounts to USD 550 billion.”

Suneeta Reddy, MD, Apollo Hospitals