Indian Healthcare Sector

1) In India, affordability of healthcare is a serious problem for the vast majority of the population than the accessibility of that. In the light of above statement consider the following options :

i) Individual's out-of-pocket expenditure is 69% of the total health expenditure in India.
ii) Total healthcare expenditure on private hospitals is 8 times of that spent on government hospitals in India.
iii) According to recent estimates total healthcare expenditure of India is 4% of GDP.
iv) Public expenditure on healthcare has recently increased to 2.5% of GDP in India.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

a) All of the above
b) i, iii and iv
c) i, ii and iii
d) ii, iii and iv

Answers:

1) c, Public expenditure on healthcare is meager 1% of GDP in India.