Recently President Pranab Mukherjee expressed concern at the low expenditure on healthcare in South-East Asia and advocated universal healthcare as the only plausible solution. At a meeting a session of WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia at Rashtrapati Bhavan he noted that 46% people in South-East Asia lived below the poverty line and asked governments to build an environment that provides quality healthcare. 'It is also a matter of concern that South-East Asia Region registers the lowest total expenditure on health as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (3.8 pc) and per capita total expenditure on health as per World