* The percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) allocated for health dropped from 1.4 per cent in 1991-92 to 0.9 per cent in 2001-02.
* India is one of the three countries where maternal mortality rates continue to be on the rise.
* The National Health Policy of 2002 does not mention the goal of providing universal access to health, a departure from the National Health Policy of 1983 and contrary to the goals of the Alma Ata Declaration.
* Although female foeticide has been on the rise over the past six years, and despite a Supreme Court directive to the government to enforce the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act, not a single doctor has been prosecuted as yet.
* Public expenditure forms only 14.3 per cent of the aggregate expenditure on health, one of the lowest figures in the world.
* The annual per capita expenditure on health is just Rs.160
* The infant mortality rate remains at a high 70 per 1,000 births; in the case of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, the figures are even higher at 83 and 84.22 respectively.
