NEW DELHI : The pandemic has improved India’s health infrastructure by pushing both the government and private sector to incur unplanned expenditure on covid-19-related services.
While the Centre spent more than ₹300 crore only on hospital equipment, private hospitals invested in large volumes of essential medical supplies and restructured hospital infrastructure to create isolation and quarantine facilities.The Union health ministry has taken over 205 healthcare facilities for covid-19 treatment, including hospitals under the ministries of AYUSH, coal, defence, human resource development, home affairs, power, shipping, railways and steel, besides those operated by the departments of atomic energy and heavy industry, and the Employees’.