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  NHCX, single platform for all health insurance settlements, to be launched soon

  Business | May 24, 2024 16:20 IST

  National Health Claim Exchange is a platform jointly developed by National Health Authority (NHA) and Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI). It is currently under trial and will be launched in the next two-three months.

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  India on verge of achieving SDG target of 70 per lakh live births by 2030: Govt

  India | March 14, 2022 16:46 IST

  Quoting a special bulletin on Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR)released by the Registrar General of India, the ministry said the country has been witnessing a progressive reduction in MMR from 130/lakh in 2014-2016, 122/lakh in 2015-17, 113/lakh in 2016-18, and 103 per lakh live births in 2017-19.

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  Centre asks states to hike health spending to 8% of budgets

  India | October 10, 2019 23:28 IST

  NITI Aayog Member Vinod K. Paul underscored two priority areas for the public health sector.

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  63 million people faced with poverty due to healthcare expenditure

  India | January 04, 2015 12:21 IST

  New Delhi: A whopping 63 million people are faced with poverty every year due to “catastrophic” expenditure over healthcare which neutralises the gains of rising income and various government schemes aimed to reduce poverty, according