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New Delhi:There is nearly 80 percent shortage of specialist doctors at community health centres (CHCs) across rural India, according to a new government report, indicating that the rising number of seats in medicine has hardly had any impact on specialised healthcare delivery beyond cities...
The Health Dynamics of India 2022-23 report released by the Union health ministry Monday showed that only 4,413 specialist doctors of the requisite 21,964 needed in CHCs in March 2023 were availablea shortfall of 17,551 or 79.9 percent..
These dismal statistics are a message to the government that it either needs to revise its strategy to improve specialist care in rural areas or completely shut these centres, said public health specialist Dr Antony K.R., who is independent monitor of the Centres National Health Mission...
The report also shows that there are 27,304 doctors and specialists employed across 714 district hospitals in the country, against a sanctioned strength of 33,964which means that nearly 20 percent of these seats are vacant too...
The new report, which was earlier called the Rural Health Statistics, showed that in rural CHCs, there was a shortfall of 4,578 surgeons, or 83.3 percent; 4,078 obstetricians and gynaecologists, or 74.2 percent; 4,499 physicians, or 81.9 percent; and 4,425 paediatricians, or 80.5 percent...
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