Budget 2022: The health budget for 2022-23 is being termed as a damp squib by many due to lack of any major initiatives or plan for the sector but a push on infrastructure at the district level has come as a pleasant surprise.

As a percentage of total expenditure in the Budget, the allocations to the Ministry of Health and the HRD ministry have both gone down. Instead, the share of spending on infrastructure has gone up

The Centre will be called Isaac Centre for Public Health and will be part of the upcoming postgraduate medical school at IISc.
This philanthropic commitment to IISc comes a month after Mindtree cofounders donated Rs.425cr to establish a medical school there.

Nadia Chauhan, joint managing director and chief marketing officer of Parle Agro, talks to Moneycontrol about health consciousness among consumers and how it affects sales of packaged fruit-based beverages such as Frooti.

The health tech company says its aim is to speed up the treatment of patients by providing them quick access to funds