The National Health Mission has been focused on improving infrastructure and access since its inception, but public healthcare facilities remains the last resort for most people. Photo: AFP

Budget 2018 | National Health Mission: The institutional barrier

1 min read . Updated: 25 Jan 2018, 08:54 AM IST Accountability Initiative

Even as the new National Health Policy of 2017 urges a widening of the service net, can outcomes improve without reform of underlying institutional shortcomings?

The National Health Mission has been focused on improving infrastructure and access since its inception. Yet, public healthcare facilities remains the last resort for most people, inhibited by poor service quality. Even as the new National Health Policy of 2017 urges a widening of the service net, can outcomes improve without reform of underlying institutional shortcomings?

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