Apollo Hospital Joint Director On Health Budget

"I was positively struck by enhanced capital expenditure, that is the clear recognition of the fact that consumer demand has to come up. only enhanced government spending can enhance consumption, with consumption will then come production and from production will come expenditure from the capital sector. It was overall a good budget. We are still waiting for the numbers. The hope is that the allocation which was made last year. An acknowledgement of digital was there, an acknowledgement of a much-neglected area mental health was there, so, let's wait for the implementation," Dr Sangeeta Reddy, Joint MD, Apollo Hospitals.