NEW DELHI : India’s public health spending needs to go up significantly over the next few years to cover the gaps in health facilities, especially in the most vulnerable states, NK Singh, chairman of the Fifteenth Finance Commission (FFC) said on Wednesday.FFC, which has given its report to the President earlier this month advising how to share tax revenue with states for the FY22-26 period has also made recommendations about the need for reprioritising public spending to fix the creaky health infrastructure exposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
FFC report also makes recommendations about performance incentives to states in several reform areas.Singh said on Wednesday at the Asia Health 2020 event organised by the Confederation of Indian.