Government schemes to provide health care and health insurance cover to the poor seem to have been of little help if one were to go by the findings of a recent health study. The out of pocket expenditure of households in rural India has shot up, says the study conducted by Prayas, a non-profit from Chittorgarh in Rajasthan, along with Oxfam India.
The study, designed on the pattern of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), covered rural areas of six states—Assam, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and Bihar. Data for Bihar has not been included in the study yet due to a technical glitch.
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