The state brought down the health outlay by Rs 487 crore for the 2021 budget from the former AIADMK governments Rs 19,420 crore in the interim budget by slashing needless expenses such as allocation of salaries for nurses who havent been appointed and judicious spending in purchase of medical supplies for government hospitals, health minister Ma Subramanian said.

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The state also cut down on spending towards PPE kits, masks, boarding and lodging charges for doctors, nurses and Health workers, he said. The state has been sanctioned more than Rs 800 crore as Covid recovery package by the Union Government and has proposed to add 4,900 nurses for various health schemes. All these allocations will appear in the revised estimate, he said.