Health In India
Healthcare in India features a universal health care system run by the constituent states and territories of India. The Constitution charges every state with "raising the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and the improvement of public health as among its primary duties". The National Health Policy was endorsed by the Parliament of India in 1983 and updated in 2002.
Parallel to the public health sector, and indeed more popular than it, is the private medical sector in India. Both urban and rural Indian household tend to use private medical sector more frequently than public sector, as reflected in surveys.
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