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Refer PHFI: Out-of-pocket health expenses pushed 55 million Indians into poverty in 2017.About
68% of the Indian population has limited or no access to essential medicines due to their
financial crisis.
Out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenses drove 55 million Indians–more than the population of South
Korea, Spain or Kenya–into poverty in 2017, and of these, 38 million (69%) were impoverished by
expenditure on medicines alone,
according to a new study.These calculations by the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), an
advocacy, were released on June 6, 2018.Based on the official Indian standard for poverty line–a
monthly expenditure of Rs 816
in rural areas and Rs 1,000 in urban areas is spent on an average -according to a 2013 report of
the erstwhile Planning Commission.
Now a day’s medical treatments and surgeries are very expensive and will exhaust patients’
insurance and savings,pushing them into debt. So suffering patients need funds from sponsors,
charitable trusts, public and private organisations.
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