evidence: The budget allocation for the Health Ministry for 2018-19 is Rs 52,800.00 crore in comparison to last year's allocation of Rs 47,352.51 crore, an increase of 5,448 crore or about 11.5 per cent. The revised allocation for 2017-2018 was Rs 51,550.85. The allocation in the last budget had seen an increase of 27.76 per cent from 2016-17. The allocation for the Department of Health Research for 2018-19 was raised to Rs 1,800.00 crore from the last budget's allocation of Rs 1,500.00 crore, an increase of Rs 300 crore.