The government's efforts to improve public health care are evident with out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) as a share of the total health expenditure coming down to 48.8 per cent in 2017-18 from 64.2 per cent in 2013-14.
The wholesale price-based inflation spiked to 5-month high of 12.54 per cent in October, mainly due to rise in prices of manufactured products and crude petroleum, while retail inflation inched up to 4.48 per cent in October due to an uptick in food prices.
