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- “We have 121 ICU beds and are offering all kinds of super-specialty services, including cardiothoracic and vascular surgeries and neurosurgeries. Such patients require post-operation ICU admission.
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Jun 16, 2020 · We estimated that India has approximately 1.9 million hospital beds, 95,000 ICU beds and 48,000 ventilators. Nationally, resources are concentrated in the private sector (hospital beds: 1,185,242 private vs 713,986 public; ICU beds: 59,262 private vs 35,699 public; ventilators: 29,631 private vs. 17,850 public).
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- Chaos Outside Hospitals
- A Preventable Disaster
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Dipankar Ghose, a reporter for The Indian Express, described chaotic scenes outside the Muzaffarnagar District Hospital in Bihar, where “the workload in the hospital is such that doctors are overworked, nurses have become doctors, ward boys have become nurses, and the families have become ward staff”. An ambulance drives up, with a man with an oxyg...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare in its 123rd report in November 2020 studied “the outbreak of pandemic Covid-19 and its management”, and had warned about the not just the inadequate supply of oxygen – as we have observed – but also “grossly inadequate” government hospital beds. But to little avail. As the gravest h...
India today allocates just 4% of total government spendingto healthcare, against a global average of 11%. Public health spending by central and state governments combined is a trifling 1.25% of GDP, the lowest among BRICS countries. Brazil spends 9.2% of GDP, South Africa 8.1%, Russia 5.4% and China 5%. In the global ranking of health spending by O...
Firstly, hospitals in the countryside have much fewer beds than those in cities. There were, at the time the pandemic struck us, a total of 7.1 lakh hospital beds in government hospitals in the country. Of these, only 2.6 lakh were in hospitals in rural India compared with 4.5 lakh in urban areas. What this adds up to is that for nearly 70% of the ...
The exclusion of the poor from health services is aggravated further because the highly strained allocations for public health have been spent mainly on secondary and tertiary healthcare, with large allocations for super-tertiary facilities like All India Institute of Medical Sciences, all to the further neglect of primary health facilities, which ...
Health inequalities in India are even more skewed in India because of historically embedded social inequalities of caste, religion, gender, disability, ethnicity, class and geographical location. The Oxfam report reveals how advantaged-caste Hindus have better healthcare access and better health indicators across the board than Dalits and Adivasis,...
Are there signs that as a people we are learning from the still-unfolding catastrophe of the pandemic to at last reduce health inequalities by far greater investments in public health, especially primary health services? Sadly, no, at least not so far. We waited carefully – with what proved to be unfounded optimism – for the allocations in the 2021...
District Facility Name Facility Type Category Last Updated Total Beds Vacant Total ICU Beds ICU Beds Vacant Contact; NAWADA: DH Nawada: DH: DCHC: Jan 29 2022 10:47AM
Facility NameFacility TypeCategoryLast UpdatedSDH MasaurhiSDHCCCJul 1 2022 10:43AMPMCHMCDCHMay 27 2023 4:02PMNMCHMCDCHAug 17 2022 12:10PMAIIMSMCDCHSep 20 2022 3:59PMEstimates suggest approximately 19 lac hospital beds, 95 thousand ICU beds and 48,000 ventilators are available in India. Most of the beds and ventilators in India, are concentrated in seven States - Uttar Pradesh (14.8%), Karnataka (13.8%), Maharashtra (12.2%), Tamil Nadu (8.1%), West Bengal (5.9%), Telangana (5.2%) and Kerala (5.2%).
May 12, 2021 · As of May 10, there were no vacant ICU beds in 18 of 38 districts. Only five districts in Bihar reported having more than 20 vacant ICU beds, a number that was dwindling.
Based on available information that critical care beds constitute 5-8% of total bed strength in large public teaching hospitals, we have assumed ICU beds constitute 5% of hospital beds across both public and private sector. Reference: Yeolekar, M. E., and S. Mehta. ICU care in India-status and challenges.
Download scientific diagram | Number of general/ICU beds per million population in Bihar, September 2021 from publication: The COVID-19 pandemic and the state in Bihar | This paper...
