New Delhi, April 21 -- Hospitalisation has become more privatised and expensive in India between 2017-18 and 2025 even as more Indians are being covered by government-sponsored health insurance programmes, government data released on Monday showed. An average non-childbirth hospitalisation in India required an out-of-pocket (OOP) spending of Rs.34,604 in 2025. This number is about 1.64 times an average Indian household's monthly spending in 2023-24. P2...