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1) Title : Just 1 doctor to treat 11,000 patients: The scary truth of India’s govt healthcare
2)3rd Paragraph says ‘India has a little over 10 lakh allopathy doctors to treat its 1.3 billion people. This works out to a doctor to population ratio of 1:11,082; the WHO prescribes a ratio of 1:1,000
DEAR HIMANI CHANDANA & THE PRINT TEAM – Pl examine & correct your statement. The Doctor and Allopathic Doctor Ratio is around 1:1300 (with 10 lakh allopathic doctors for 1.3 billion population)
With Ayurvedic, Unani and Naturopathi, Siddharth the ratio is about 1:900.
Dr.Lakshmi Prasad, 7675033335
I just wanna know why the other medical systems like Homeopathic, Ayurveda, Unani weren’t added or considered.
Even they do have a good practice with high medicinal values in it. As far as these systems are considered as doctors that will bring down the ratio.
We need such eye opening stories. Hope someone addresses the issue. Education is also a similar concern. Two noble professions, medical & education, are always sidelined by our political system.
Not yet corrected your wrong statement.
DEAR HIMANI CHANDANA & THE PRINT TEAM – Pl examine & correct your statement.
1) Title : Just 1 doctor to treat 11,000 patients: The scary truth of India’s govt healthcare
2)3rd Paragraph says ‘India has a little over 10 lakh allopathy doctors to treat its 1.3 billion people. This works out to a doctor to population ratio of 1:11,082; the WHO prescribes a ratio of 1:1,000
DEAR HIMANI CHANDANA & THE PRINT TEAM – Pl examine & correct your statement. The Doctor and Allopathic Doctor Ratio is around 1:1300 (with 10 lakh allopathic doctors for 1.3 billion population)
With Ayurvedic, Unani and Naturopathi, Siddharth the ratio is about 1:900.
Dr.Lakshmi Prasad, 7675033335
I just wanna know why the other medical systems like Homeopathic, Ayurveda, Unani weren’t added or considered.
Even they do have a good practice with high medicinal values in it. As far as these systems are considered as doctors that will bring down the ratio.
We need such eye opening stories. Hope someone addresses the issue. Education is also a similar concern. Two noble professions, medical & education, are always sidelined by our political system.
We need such eye-opener stories. Hope someone really works on it. Great work done by the author.