FILE PHOTO - A patient awaits routine check-up as he sits under a mosquito net inside a dengue ward of a government hospital in New Delhi, India, September 18, 2015. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee/File Photo
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's health ministry has trimmed its cost estimates for extending its main public health programme by 25 percent after criticism from a federal think-tank over inefficiency and slow progress, according to government documents seen by Reuters.
The new estimate of $25 billion for a three-year extension of the flagship health programme, down from an initial figure of about $33 billion, comes as Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushes a multi-pronged agenda to revamp health services.
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