GoI puts new health policy draft on website, invites suggestions

New Delhi

Seeking “highest possible level of good health” through preventive and promotive care, the Centre today put the draft of the new National Health Policy in the public domain to receive suggestions from various stakeholders.

The policy’s objectives are to improve the people’s health status through concerted policy action in all sectors and expand preventive, promotive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative services provided by the public health sector, according to the draft put up at the Health Ministry’s website.

It also aims at a “significant reduction” in out of pocket expenditure due to health care costs and lowering of proportion of households experiencing “catastrophic health expenditures and consequent impoverishment”.

It looks to assure “universal availability” of free, comprehensive primary health care services, as an “entitlement”, for all aspects of reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent health and for the most prevalent communicable and non-communicable diseases.

“The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has placed the draft copy of the new National Health Policy, 2015 in public domain to seek suggestions, comments and views from various stakeholders.

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