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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman – Photo: PTI
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Presenting its eighth budget for 2025-26, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that, the central government will provide the facility to set up a daycare cancer center in all district hospitals in the next three years and 200 of them will be set up in 2025-26. . Along with this, the Finance Minister has proposed to completely remove the basic customs duty on 36 life saving medicines used to treat other serious diseases including cancer.
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He said that the government will provide the facility to set up a daycare cancer center in all district hospitals in the next three years. He said, 200 centers will be set up in 2025-26 itself. Sitharaman said, to provide relief to people suffering from patients, especially cancer, rare diseases and other serious chronic diseases, I propose to add 36 life saving drugs to the list of drugs on which complete customs duty There will be discounts. In addition, six life -saving drugs will be added to a 5 % concession customs list. Bulk drugs required for the manufacture of these drugs will also apply full discount or discounted rate.
In the last budget, the government had decided to cut GST at three major cancer drugs- Tasteuzumab Derukstecon, Osimrtinib and Durwalumab. Sitharaman said that now I propose to add 37 more life saving drugs to this list and include 13 new patient aid programs.
While presenting his eighth consecutive budget on Saturday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, “To give relief to people suffering from patients, especially cancer, rare diseases and other serious chronic diseases, I of 36 life saving medicines and medicines for those medicines I propose to add to the list, which will have a completely original customs exemption.
In addition, he mentioned that the specified medicines and medicines given under the ‘Patient Assistance Program’ (Patient Assistance Program) run by pharmaceutical companies are kept completely free from the original customs, provided these medicines provide free to the patients. Be done
Regarding increasing seats in medical colleges and hospitals, he said, our government has added about 1.1 lakh undergraduate and postgraduate medical education seats in 10 years. This is an increase of 130 percent. The minister also informed that broadband connectivity will be provided to all government secondary schools and primary health centers. Sitharaman said that Gig workers will be provided health facilities under the PM Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY).
