The onset of the covid-19 pandemic, brought home to the world in general and India in particular the strategic importance of health in a nation’s security fabric.
In India’s case, beyond lip service, health rarely received priority, especially with respect to effective policy implementation—the shortage of oxygen supplies during the pandemic was a grim reminder of India’s health deficit.New data sets released by the National Health Accounts (NHA), suggest that India may be at a tipping point with respect to its healthnomics.
To unpack the findings StratNews Global spoke to Indranil Mukhopadhyay, professor and health economist at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy.
