<h1>UP budget increases health and medical education allocations to expand healthcare infrastructure and insurance coverage.</h1> The state budget increases health-sector funding, raising the Medical, Health and Family Welfare allocation by 15% and assigning funds to major programmes: cashless maternal deliveries under Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram, block-level child health teams, Pulse Polio and Japanese Encephalitis vaccination drives, Integrated Disease Surveillance reporting, Ayushman Bharat insurance schemes, the National Rural Health Mission, and district mental health services. It also funds expansion of medical education-including 14 new colleges and a PPP approach for underserved districts-and allocates capital for cancer care, incurable-disease treatment, and AYUSH infrastructure and drug production.