No health cess in new National Health Policy: Govt

The new National Health Policy has rejected earlier proposals to introduce a health cess to scale up the public investments in health care.The new policy which was unveiled yesterday, aims at providing assured health services to all and also proposes free drugs,



diagnostics and emergency care services in all public hospitals. Briefing reporters in New Delhi yesterday, Health Minister J P Nadda said, the talks of introducing a health cess is wrong and there is no question of introducing health cess.