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Plan to increase health budget to 4pc of GDP

The government is working on an ambitious plan to increase the health spending to four per cent of GDP in a phased manner over four years, with an emphasis on disease prevention and awareness promotion. "The government will increase health expenditure from the present 0.6 per cent to four per cent of GDP,' Information Minister Sherry Rehman, who also holds the charge of health ministry, said on Tuesday.

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