The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's budget request for the next fiscal year includes the cost of strengthening measures against infectious diseases such as the new coronavirus, in addition to the increase in social security costs due to the aging of the population. It was over 100 million yen.
On the 26th, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced a budget request for next year's budget.
According to this, the total amount of the general account was 33,945 billion yen, an increase of 807.0 billion yen from the initial budget of this year, the largest ever.
Most of the expenses are for social security expenses such as medical care and pensions, and due to the aging of the population, the budget has increased by more than 670 billion yen from the initial budget of this year to 31,779.1 billion yen.
As a priority measure, a "crisis management operation center" will be set up in the ministry to strengthen the crisis management system for infectious diseases including the new coronavirus, which will cost 200 million yen. In order to strengthen the system for stable supply of APIs and raw materials that are highly dependent on overseas, we are investing 1.1 billion yen in support for the establishment of new domestic manufacturing plants.
In addition, we have allocated more than 400 million yen to establish a system for conducting rapid clinical research and clinical trials of vaccines and therapeutic agents.
In addition, the cost of measures against the new corona will be required as needed based on the future infection situation, and the cost of expanding the insurance coverage for infertility treatment will be considered during the budgeting process at the end of the year. increase.