Union Budget 2022: Healthcare sector urges govt increase spending on genetic research
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Challa added that government needs to give more subsidy and sop to the genetic field.
New Delhi: As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to present the Budget for the financial year 2022-23 in February, the healthcare sector has urged the government to increase spending on genetic research.
Dr Hima Jyothi Challa, Director, GenepoweRx told Zee Media, "government needs to increase the spending on genetic research. The whole world is moving towards personalized medicine. And the personalized medicines are prescribed only after genetic profiling. We have still a long way to go, we need improved infrastructure and research and development departments to conduct research around genetics. Other countries in the world are already way ahead than us. In UK medical practitioners are prescribing medicines based on gene analysis. The patients are showing remarkable progress after consuming personalized medicine. If we will not have data specific to Indian genes, personalized medicine will remain a distant dream for us."
Challa added that government needs to give more subsidy and sop to the genetic field.
